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Arterial bleed

Posted By castoryd98

"Arterial bleed"

About: Royal Surrey County Hospital / Accident and emergency Royal Surrey County Hospital / Plastic surgery South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust / Emergency ambulance

(as the patient),

Lizzie and Luke (paramedics from Chertsey) arrived around midnight, in response to 999 call 10:30pm. Brilliant, staunched blood flow from site of skin graft following bcc removal on lhs temple at Cobham daycare Hosp.

Stabilised with pressure bandages, I was transported to A&E at Guildford. Further examination, new pressure bandages and transferred to Majors, morning visit by doctor and adrenilin gauze applied by nurse Syril brilliant.

During discussions as to next step, arterial bleed occurred and now know why beds have rubber bumpers; rushed into resus. Long story short, artery clamped cheering from 14 or so onlookers (in scrubs). Alvind (max facial surgeon) and Sister Pauline cauterised, stitched artery.

I am so grateful to all involved

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Response from Charlotte Pearson, Communications Officer, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 4 months ago
Charlotte Pearson
Communications Officer,
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Submitted on 14/07/2025 at 10:05
Published on Care Opinion at 10:05

Dear patient,

Thank you for taking the time to share your positive feedback in A&E at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust and the care your received in Majors too. We have shared your kind words with the teams and this will be much appreciated. We wish you all the best with your health going forward.

With kind regards from the Patient Experience Team

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Response from Marie Clifford, Patient Experience Officer, South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust 4 months ago
Marie Clifford
Patient Experience Officer,
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Submitted on 21/07/2025 at 09:59
Published on Care Opinion at 09:59

Thank you very much for posting your review of the care you received from the ambulance crew who attended you at what must have been a frightening time.

I would very much like to share your review with the staff involved and would be grateful if you could contact us direct so that we can gather some more details to help us identify them. You can leave a voice message for my colleague, Sandra, who handles compliments, on 0300 123 9242 or you can email her at sandra.king@secamb.nhs.uk

I hope you are now feeling much better and we will look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes

Marie

Marie Clifford

PALS Officer

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Nexus House, Gatwick Road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9BG

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