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The team arrive and assess Ben

breathing

So here we meet Ben and the unfortunate Ed (you may remember him from a previous video). So far we have heard that he has had a couple of days of vomiting, a fever and abdominal pain.

  1. What are your first impressions?
  2. What do you think is going on here and what needs to be done next?
  3. As an aside, Ed ‘Didn’t want to bother the GP’ but called out an emergency ambulance. What do you think about this?
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