Bare-Knuckle Stand-Off

I went to observe one of my students (paramedic N, on the Leeds clinical education course) teach a cohort of trainee emergency care assistants.

Excellent session, with livelier illustrative anecdotes than I've heard for some time. Or actually, ever.

One case he used illustrated hypovolaemic shock in the victim of an axe attack at a rumble at the travellers' camp. A rival family had been trying to kill him, to try and "put off" his son who was the favourite in a bare-knuckle fight that night.

N had arrived with his colleague, blues and twos, followed by five Shoguns who had chased them down the motorway. The police were in stand-off.

The victim had an axe in his head (he survived in due course) and one of his ears on the floor. Copious blood everywhere, shock setting in.

I think N's students got the message...