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The depart with people and the screen was flashing up a waiting time of five hours

‘And it’s going to be longer than that,’ Katy told the a bad day down here Thanks for your help We thought that you could sort the children out—ht to the ward if you prefer’

Andreas gave a brief nod ‘We’ll assess the on?’

‘A coach overturned on one of the bridges,’ Katy told hi And now A about the fire Apparently it was a nasty one The mother jumped from the ith the baby She’s fractured both feh they think the baby is fine The father went back into the house to try and get to the other child’

Before they could discuss the case any further they heard sirens as several ambulances pulled into the ambulance bay

‘OK, let’s o and one of the A and E consultants appeared and took charge He spoke swiftly to the parae in the back of the ariht away, and fast-bleep the orthopaedic surgeons Andreas, do you want the children on the ward or down here?’

‘I’ll assess them here’ Andreas stepped forward to talk to the other paramedic ‘What’s the story?’

‘The baby seems to be unhurt Thethe child so the little one ht, but she herself jumped from the bedroo non-stop but no signs of burns The four-year-old is a different ot nasty burns to her legs We’ve given her oxygen at the scene and covered them’

‘OK—take theh to Paediatric Resus,’ Andreas ordered, and Libby hurried ahead of hined specially for children

The para four-year-old onto the trolley and kept hold of the baby, as also shrieking

Charlotte, one of the A and E sisters, hurried forward ‘I’ll take her while you examine the older child’

Andreas was already by her side, talking to her gently, trying to assess the degree of dah her quickly? Once we’ve done that I want to estiet this child some pain relief,’ he ordered quietly, and Libby did as he’d instructed ‘We need to get a line in and then we’ll give her a bolus of morphine’

Libby gathered the necessary equip the percentage of the body surface that had suffered burns