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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 min.) ; 160861188 bytes |
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*This program depicts emergency medical situations*Experience just how different a life-threatening crisis can be in one of the most isolated locations on earth. In episode four, brothers require urgent treatment after they both cut their hands in a freak circular saw accident. Paramedics attend to a child with a suspected spinal injury, a young man has an embarrassing pain in his bottom, and the hospital staff come to terms with the death of a patient.Brothers Keith and Paul arrive at the emergency department both with hand injuries. They had been restoring an old car when Keith slipped with a circular saw and cut his fingers. In that moment he offloaded the saw to his brother Paul who cut his hand as well. Keith's injury is far more serious and it's a race against time to save his fingers.Twenty-two-year old Peter has an embarrassing problem - he has a sore bottom. Dr Sandy Clarke's examination has him wincing with pain, but he maintains his sense of humour throughout the procedure.The whole emergency department comes into action to save a man's life, but sadly is unsuccessful. Afterwards the team debrief, which provides a rare insight into how hospital staff deal with a patient's death.A backyard party ends abruptly when four-year-old Ramsay goes into seizure after jumping off the top of a slide. Doctors are baffled as to what caused Ramsay's seizure as he did not have a head injury. But a greater concern comes from his spinal x-ray.PRODUCTION DETAILS:A Screentime (a Banijay Group company) production for ABC TV made with the financial assistance of Screen Australia and Screen NSW. Created by Simon Steel, Outback ER is series produced by Tony De La Pen\0x0303a and executive produced by Screentime's Jennifer Collins and Simon Steel with ABC TV's Commissioning Editor, Andrea Ulbrick |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-03-05 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Circular saws.
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Emergency medical services -- Evaluation.
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Hand -- Wounds and injuries.
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Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries.
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Hospitals -- Employees.
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New South Wales -- Broken Hill.
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Streaming video
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Burke, Chris, cast
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