24 Hours in A&E fans were horrified by an injury caused by a life changing stabbing. Episode four of Channel 4's 24 Hours in A&E, filmed at Nottingham's Queen’s Medical Centre, aired on Tuesday, January 24 at 9pm, and viewers were alarmed by a gruesome injury suffered by a patient.
The latest episode followed the stories of a woman as she tells us what it's like to be married to a man with two very different careers, a young man dealing with the physical consequences from a historic stab wound, and a mother coming to terms with her daughter’s behaviour.
Viewers were particularly captivated by the story of 21-year-old Callum, who was rushed into A&E with badly prolapsed stoma, leaving part of his bowels outside of his body. As a doctor raced to get the stoma back into Callum’s torso and prevent further damage, hospital staff recalled when he came into resus a couple of years earlier with a single stab wound that changed his life forever.
His heart stopped twice and he was in intensive care for 12 weeks after being stabbed outside of a nightclub in May 2019, which resulted in him needing the stoma. Callum was sick as NHS workers tried to help get his stoma back inside his body during the show.
On Twitter, 24 Hours in A&E viewers watched as Callum recoiled in pain whilst doctors attempted to shrink the stoma with sugar and push it back inside his body. One person said: "Jesus Wept! That stoma looks horrendously painful, #24hrsAE."
Another added: "Poor b****r was stabbed, almost died and now he’s ended up with a stoma. Not had an easy life, has Callum."
One viewer tweeted: "Watching 24 hours in A+E, think I'd be effing and jeffing if my bowels were hanging out also, bless him!
A watcher said: "Oh gosh that looks really really painful."
Another simply added: "I am screaming! #24hrsAE"
Callum needed emergency surgery to address the problem after efforts to push his stoma back in failed. This lasted almost two hours and surgeons had to remove more of his bowel, but he has since recovered well at home.
During the episode viewers also followed the story of 20-year-old Peta, who had fallen off her motorbike, was treated for a suspected bleed on the brain. 44-year-old Libby also featured in the episode, after being sent into A&E having been hit in the face with a stick whilst playing hockey.
24 Hours in A&E airs every Tuesday on Channel 4 at 9pm, until February 21.
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