A nineteen year old who had ongoing knee problems. For some reason at 3 am it was hurting a lot. We went to see him and to put it bluntly he was panicking.
I'm sure it did hurt, but for a burly nineteen year old to be shouting so loud we could hear him outside it was a bit much. We managed to calm him down a bit and he emptyed two cylinders of gas and air. We arranged for a GP to come and see him to give him something a bit stronger and left him to it.
We got all the way back to base and the radio opened up to send us back to see him again as he now couldn't breath.
What had happened was that he had started to get worked up again and was breathing so hard and fast that he had developed cramp in his chest muscles.
We calmed him down again and left him again. Hopefully the GP will have been to see him by now.
Cocktailer
So, Casualty on the Beeb is basically over-egging the pudding then? No intubating every shift? No pulling seven year old girls with puppy-dog eyes out from trees just before they're struck by lightning? Do you at least get to run through the hospital doors and ramble those coded figures about pulse rates at the nurses?