about winter pressures. delays at hospital are a worry. we re worried about the system becoming overrun. so we ve got a category one call, a male who was unconscious. siren wails their first call of the day, and ryan and debbie from the north west ambulance service are on their way to see a critically ill patient. hello, are you 0k? please can we get some pads on him just in case? and then let s get some access. he was really septic and with his heart rate being so low, his blood pressure and saturations and recordable, i believe he was at the stage just before going into cardiac arrest, he was that poorly. right, we are good to go when you are. we re going to go on blue lights. our eta to wigan is six minutes, ever. can you open them eyes for me? hold my hand. ifeel really privileged to do ourjob. it s only a short distance to resus. within minutes of getting the patient into intensive care. do you think you could step out with us and we will get you straight into a chair? i
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