Transcript:Next of Kin - Part One


 * [Opening titles]


 * [Scene: ED - Entrance Corridor. Scarlett and Lloyd run towards the main entrance to meet Jeff and Dixie, who are bringing in a patient. They take him to resus.]

Dixie: Okay, we've got a male, approximately mid-thirties, severely intoxicated. He's vomited and he's started to fit. His GCS, varied, between 9 and 14, his B/P is 95 over 60, his sats are 95.


 * [Scene: ED - Resus]

Jeff: Which one, please?

Lloyd: Number two.

Jeff: Thank you.

Scarlett: High risk of a possible missed head injury.

Dixie: Okay. Right, let's get him over please, ladies and gents. Have everyone got a bit?

Lloyd: Yep.

Jeff: Yeah.

Linda: Yup.

Dixie: On three. One, two, three...


 * [A board is slid under the patient]

Dixie: And over. One, two, three...


 * [The patient is pulled onto the bed. Lloyd and Scarlett realise the patient is Jay.]

Linda: Lloyd?

Lloyd: Maintain open airway. Begin primary survey. Crash bleep anaesthetics. He'll need arterial blood gas.

Scarlett: No signs of trauma. I'll do blood glucose. May need IV dextrose. So, I will put another line in.

[Scarlett grabs Jay's arm to put a line in. As she does so, Jay stats to fit.]

Scarlett: He's fitting!