News in category Trauma
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The tremendous gift of hope
Against astounding odds, a young boy recovers from a horrific crash
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“If it wasn’t for the stroke team at King’s, I wouldn’t be alive today.”
Five years after a major stroke killed half his brain, George returns to thank the team that saved his life.
George Nightingill was just 41 when he collapsed suddenly on a normal day at work. He was taken to his local hospital, where a brain scan revealed that he had suffered a major
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100 years of King’s: Join the Centenary Challenge
This year, King’s celebrates its 100th birthday. To mark the centenary, we’re asking you to help support more life-saving work by raising at least £100 for the King’s Centenary Challenge.
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Nurse Laura Higgs on country walks and an unusual patient
Laura Higgs is an Emergency Nurse practitioner at King’s. She has been working at the hospital for nearly eight years.
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24 Hours in A&E Series 2 Episode 8 Live Blog
In the eighth episode of the award-winning Channel 4 documentary series 24 Hours in A&E, consultant Emer Sutherland and senior sister Jen Du Prat are running resus.
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24 Hours in A&E Series 2 Episode 7 Live Blog
Episode seven focuses on some of the elderly patients who are treated at King’s College Hospital, including a 93-year-old war veteran who arrives with life-threatening injuries after being knocked over by a hit and run driver just outside the hospital.
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24 Hours in A&E Series 2 Episode 6 Live Blog
As staff and patients come to terms with Whitney Houston’s untimely death, King’s fills up with young people who had planned exciting nights out, but not expected a trip to A&E to be part of the itinery.
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24 Hours in A&E Series 2 Episode 5 Live Blog
24 Hours in A&E continues with a tender and insightful episode focussing on young men in their prime. One is a fitness fanatic who arrives seriously injured after a canal barge accident, while another is a pre-operative transsexual with a sore finger following a night’s clubbing.
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