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00:00The next stop on my road trip was through the uncanny valley and out the other side.
00:05Metaphorically, anyway, literally, I was going to Yorkshire.
00:07It's the largest historic county in England, traditionally divided into three ridings.
00:12Partly because of that, and partly because I spent a good few years of my youth there,
00:15and feel quite a bit of loyalty to it, Yorkshire is getting three episodes on the road trip,
00:20one for each riding, and we start in the west.
00:22I parked up at the collegiate campus of Sheffield Hallam University,
00:26home to the medical and healthcare students,
00:27and to a very strange hospital ward.
00:33This is NHS signage.
00:34Yeah, it is actually. It's as close to the NHS spec that we physically could get.
00:39Wow.
00:40You'll see, as we walk on the ward, how close we are.
00:42Oh, this is a hospital.
00:44Yes.
00:44Every bit of my brain just went, this is a hospital.
00:46It even smells like a hospital, which is really weird.
00:49Right?
00:50That is Kay. She's a senior adult nursing lecturer at the university,
00:53and she showed me around the simulated hospital ward that they use for teaching.
00:57I need to give you a bit of a heads up here.
00:59This is the more intense version of the video, which is not suitable for everyone.
01:04In the later parts of the video, there will be uncensored simulations of
01:08disgusting and traumatic injuries.
01:10Nothing's going to jump scare you, it's all flagged in advance,
01:13but some folks may prefer to watch bits of this through their fingers.
01:17Anyway, we start the tour with one of the more mundane parts of the hospital ward, the toilets.
01:22My brain has just gone, this is a hospital.
01:25Like, we walked through that door and I'm no longer on a university campus.
01:28So we use this for stuff with physios, with student nurses,
01:32anything where we're moving patients around.
01:35Yeah.
01:35Everything works.
01:36The emergency cord works a little too well,
01:40because it actually looks a security, so they actually think it's an emergency,
01:44so we have to be mindful of that.
01:45We even have a sluice.
01:47Oh, a hospital sluice is for safe disposal of bodily fluids,
01:51waste and associated items, and theirs works.
01:55They have almost everything they need to run an actual hospital ward,
01:59despite the fact they don't have any actual patients.
02:01Obviously, fake urine and feces is used.
02:05Of course it is!
02:06So we need somewhere to dispose of things.
02:09Okay, so, obvious question, do you buy that from a supplier?
02:12Is there someone who...
02:13We have a Sophie who makes all sorts of really wonderful things.
02:17I should go talk to Sophie.
02:19Sophie is a technical specialist on the clinical simulation team,
02:23and she has particular skills in moulage,
02:25which is the art of creating realistic simulated injuries and illnesses.
02:29We'll see those in a moment, but I should make it clear...
02:32You do a hell of a lot else besides!
02:34Uh, yeah, which we can show you.
02:37Yeah, as you look around, you can tell it's an actual ward with patients.
02:41With patients!
02:42I mean, yes, okay, I'm slightly weirded out by the people in the beds,
02:45but other than that, this is a perfect simulation of a hospital.
02:50Can we have a look round?
02:51Yes, so we're going to go this way first.
02:53All right, this way first. You've planned this all out, thank you.
02:56I made a plan, because I want you to meet the first sim.
02:57Oh!
02:58So this is Gwen.
03:00I nearly said hi to Gwen.
03:03So we love Gwen.
03:04Okay.
03:05I think Gwen is one of the most pampered mannequins you will ever meet in your life.
03:10She's got a bean bag, she's got some toys.
03:12She's even got a health passport, which is just on there.
03:15Oh, yeah.
03:16So this is something that she would take into hospital with us.
03:19It's how to, you know, properly care for her and things like that.
03:23So we try to make it as real as possible.
03:25She has a little dragon here that's tucked under her arm itself.
03:28Gwen is actually based off a real person as well.
03:31Incredibly brave little girl that's gone through and had these scans and things like that
03:37for Lifepass to actually be able to make.
03:40So you could keep your touch up.
03:41Hey, my hesitation is not because of the uncanny valley.
03:45I did expect this to be a story about the uncanny valley,
03:48where things like mannequins that aren't quite human enough freak out the brain.
03:52But no, I'm stuttering and panicking,
03:54because on some level my brain has accepted this mannequin as human.
04:00Intellectually, I know, this is a lump of plastic, but the simulation is so good.
04:05That looks like a sleeping kid to me.
04:07Oh, that is, that feels like I'm holding a hand, a slightly cold hand perhaps,
04:12but that's within, that's just someone who needs the heating turned up slightly.
04:16That's incredible.
04:17I feel uncomfortable doing that, not because it's a mannequin,
04:20but because my brain is going, that's a human that I'm disturbing.
04:23Yeah, it's really cool.
04:25If you notice as well, Gwen's eyebrow hairs.
04:29She's got eyelashes.
04:30And all individually done.
04:32I feel invasive with this camera.
04:34I know it's a mannequin.
04:35I keep, that's every detail.
04:40Sometimes with Down Syndrome, what she's got is a difficult airway as well.
04:44So you can teach people how to manage difficult airways.
04:46So it's not just on the outside, it's actually on the inside.
04:49If you're trying to intubate or...
04:52Yeah.
04:55Because this is based on an actual little girl.
04:58Yeah.
04:58So she actually has the scars that air so...
05:03Oh, it's on this side.
05:03Yeah, the little girl had an operation and she's got the scars.
05:07This, again, this feels invasive.
05:11I did a bit of research on the Gwen mannequin afterwards,
05:14and turns out the original Gwen has an acting and casting agent.
05:17She was paid for her work.
05:18She and her family understood everything that was going on.
05:21People with Down Syndrome tend to have worse health outcomes.
05:25So training students on a mannequin like that is going to be helpful.
05:28Not every patient can say yes and no.
05:32Not every patient will be perceived to be able to understand things.
05:36So how you communicate is a huge thing.
05:39And the fact that Gwen doesn't speak makes us able to do those things with her.
05:45How long does it take the students to kind of get acclimatised to this?
05:50Some students love it. Some students are completely freaked out by it.
05:54And we do like a briefing.
05:56Sophie does the briefing a lot explaining about each of the mannequins.
06:00OK, so there are other mannequins here.
06:04Yes, lots and lots of different ones.
06:05Let's go see.
06:06So I'm going to let Sophie take over on these ones because I'm an adult nurse.
06:09Do not deal with children.
06:11Oh, OK.
06:11I was going to say, we've kind of got a bit of a variety out for you.
06:15That's my reaction to kids as well.
06:16Of course.
06:17So we've got a variety of ages from baby or toddler.
06:21I think it's more of toddler size.
06:23So again, we've got some sort of lifelikes,
06:26some of the kind of like what we say is ILS mannequins.
06:29ILS?
06:29Yes.
06:30So it's immediate life spot.
06:31Right.
06:32So it's how to kind of deal with an emergency situation,
06:37so things like CPR and stuff.
06:39So that's kind of what we've got out at the moment.
06:42I do want to show you another one, though.
06:44So if you want to come over here.
06:46You're saying about Gwen.
06:52However, we do have little Isaiah.
06:55Sophie traded me my camera for the baby mannequin.
06:58I mean, it's clear from the way I'm handling the mannequin that this is not something I'm comfortable with.
07:05I mean, you tend to pass this around to students.
07:08So I'm terrible for doing this.
07:09I'm going to take the baby off you because you look terrible.
07:11Yeah, absolutely.
07:13And I'm much nicer with this.
07:15Camera's great.
07:16So what I tend to do with particularly this baby is randomly pass it to a student when
07:22they're on the ward because the moment you are a healthcare professional,
07:26it doesn't matter what level you are, a child will be handed to you.
07:30It doesn't matter if you're a paramedic, a radiotherapy and oncologist, a nurse,
07:35even if you are not looking after that child, a child will be handed to you.
07:38Right.
07:38So I kind of do that to our students, which is a tiny bit mean, but it's representable.
07:44And you saw my reaction. I just have a phrase of like,
07:46no one has taught me how to do this.
07:49I'm terrible with children, but I know how to hold a baby just because I hand it out so frequently.
07:55Yeah.
07:56He freaks me out because I don't do children, but it works really well as a teaching aid for students.
08:03Some of our students have got really attached to them.
08:07They do, yeah.
08:07Like, where's the baby? We need to put the baby down.
08:10And I'm like, it is a mannequin, but there we go.
08:16But he, because he's lifelike, doesn't tend to do any screaming or crying, which is really handy.
08:23Yeah, really, that's not lifelike, in my experience.
08:27But we do have ones that are a little more loud, yes.
08:31Okay, so now let's leave the children's side of the ward behind.
08:34Things are going to get a little bit more intense.
08:36No goo to be seen yet, but we are going to dive a bit further into the uncanny valley.
08:41My brain just went people.
08:43My brain, completely out of the corner of my eye, saw people in the hospital beds.
08:46Yep.
08:47So this is, I call her Babs.
08:50She's amazing.
08:51We've got a few of her, haven't we?
08:53Yeah, so we've currently got two.
08:55She is one of our newer mannequins, so she's a bariatric mannequin.
08:59Yep.
09:00The UK's National Health Service defines bariatric patients in a few different ways,
09:04depending on context, but generally that's anyone whose weight or physical size
09:07means they're going to have limitations in their healthcare.
09:10For someone of average height, that's around 160 kilos,
09:13or to use the British measurement, 25 stone.
09:16I don't want to de-robe you, my dear.
09:18And I would not be able to show that anyway.
09:21No, it's fine.
09:21But, like, realistic to touch and things like that, if you think from your mouth.
09:26Yeah, yeah.
09:27I mean, I don't know what I'm comparing, but okay.
09:32She's supposed to represent 26 stone, isn't she?
09:36Roundabout, yeah.
09:37Yeah, that 26 stone.
09:38Obviously, she doesn't weigh that, but the body shape...
09:41Because you need to be able to pick up and lift the mannequin and move to a different bed.
09:45Yeah.
09:45But the students...
09:47If, for example, they were learning something like personal care.
09:51Right.
09:51So, with someone like Babs, because she's a bariatric patient,
09:55there's more creases, there's more folds, there's more opportunities for infection.
10:00Yeah.
10:00So, if we're doing a bed-bath-in scenario, they would have to wash every part of her.
10:06And so, in that case, it's not the right weight, but every other detail is there.
10:10It's the exact same.
10:11And we do mean every detail.
10:14So, from a biological point of view, everything you would expect from a bariatric patient.
10:19The other thing that Babs has got, which Sophie loves, and she does make it better,
10:25is she has a diabetic toe ulcer.
10:27Oh, yeah, that is...
10:29Because, of course, the mannequins have to have things beyond what they're in hospital for.
10:34Yeah.
10:34Because every patient is complex.
10:36Every patient has more than one thing, even if that thing's minor.
10:39Every patient that comes into a hospital environment doesn't come in with one thing.
10:43They come with so many different things.
10:46So, Babs might have come in with breathing difficulties.
10:49She might have something like COVID.
10:53But she's got a diabetic foot ulcer that she didn't realise,
10:57because one of the things with diabetes is neuropathy.
10:59So, they can't feel it.
11:01Right.
11:01So, we might be the first person to see that toe.
11:05And so, the student's job is to, among other things, to notice and log and realise that.
11:09Yeah.
11:10And the chances are, with the level of necrosis on that toe, she could lose it.
11:14Right.
11:15Which is the fascinating thing that we've got someone like Sophie who is able to make that look...
11:23What's the best way of describing it?
11:25Do it.
11:26Grosser.
11:27And actually, we've all had stories as being a nurse where you've pulled the bed sheets back
11:32and her toe has come off.
11:33Oh!
11:34Yes.
11:35So...
11:36Okay, yeah.
11:36And that's sadly not uncommon.
11:38Right.
11:39And we kind of want to show the real-life grossness of nursing and healthcare in general,
11:48because it's interesting.
11:50It's not just for shock factor.
11:52Right.
11:53Heaven knows, like, someone on an actual ward is going to have much...
11:58Grosser seems like such a reductive term, but much more shocking stories than that.
12:02Yeah, definitely.
12:03Every week.
12:03It's very funny as well, because students don't realise, as lecturers, as staff,
12:08we are always listening.
12:09So if they say anything slightly derogatory, we can pull them up on it and go,
12:13okay, so patients hear everything.
12:16Yes, they do.
12:17So, with this is...
12:18Sorry, I don't know why I've said yes, they do, as if I know that.
12:21I just...
12:21They really do.
12:22They hear everything.
12:24This office ward is very quiet.
12:26Normally, it's a very loud environment, really, really, really busy.
12:29How many students would you have in here?
12:30We can have up to 25 to 30 students on the full sim.
12:35Yeah, and we have the delights of...
12:37Do you want to press the buzzer?
12:38Oh.
12:39Oh.
12:39What about we?
12:41So we have bed alarms and stuff.
12:43So we will switch them on, as in patients are buzzing, the phone will be ringing, there'll
12:50be students doing it, and it gets very loud up here, which is quite authentic for an actual ward.
12:57And we also have, like, crash trolleys on both sides as well, which is what you would
13:02have if someone was to have a cardiac arrest.
13:04Yeah.
13:05It's got everything you could possibly need in the event of a cardiac arrest as well.
13:08And presumably at some point during a simulation a mannequin might have a cardiac arrest.
13:13Yeah.
13:13Which is something that we're going to show you.
13:16Yeah.
13:16Oh, okay.
13:16This is what...
13:17Oh, did that...
13:17That just blinked.
13:18Yes.
13:18Ah, now, I said that.
13:21I didn't say he, she, they.
13:23I said that.
13:24So my brain, yeah, that blinking is enough to make me go, oh, no, not a human.
13:30There's different levels of realism.
13:32Yeah, so all the mannequins you've met at the moment are all simulating life on this,
13:38but this one actually does things.
13:40So if you notice, she is breathing.
13:44She is.
13:45The chest is going up and down.
13:47Now, is there actually a fan?
13:48Can I detect breathing if I...
13:50No.
13:51Okay.
13:51Um, but what you can do is you can find a pulse...
13:54No.
13:55...where you would do on a normal human being.
13:57I've got to remember how to...
13:57So if you put...
13:58Two fingers just...
14:00Just there.
14:03Also, if you press too hard it will stop as well, which...
14:05Yeah, which is natural.
14:06Yeah, of course.
14:08That's...
14:08So you can take an accurate pulse, and what Sophie's got there is the controls.
14:14Oh, so that's hooked up to the monitor there.
14:18It's showing correctly the heart rate, which is, yeah, that...
14:22I'm not going to say I got it at 80, but it's about a bit more than one a second.
14:25Yeah.
14:26And there's blinking.
14:28She does actually make noises as well.
14:30So we can...
14:31So we can...
14:35Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
14:35Sorry.
14:36Okay.
14:37I know you're used to this, and like, I don't normally put myself in a position where I have
14:42like a freak-out reaction on camera.
14:44That was uncomfortable.
14:45That was halfway between a mannequin is screaming at me and a person is screaming at me.
14:51They can record scripts, have the mannequin speak and respond, or they can give the mannequin a heart attack.
14:59So she's gone into...
15:01Saturation signal low, eyes have shut, and...
15:06And I will change the rhythm.
15:09Dropping...
15:09And there is no...
15:10And there's no breathing.
15:11There is no breathing.
15:12I would not have noticed the lack of breathing.
15:15But you're not a healthcare professional, or you're training to be one.
15:19That's probably for the best.
15:21Yeah, but that's the interesting thing.
15:23It makes it so...
15:25Those little changes, that seemed huge for you.
15:29When this was really busy and noisy, are you going to pick up on that?
15:33Are you going to pick up that there's eyes closed, no noise, no pulse?
15:38Not when there's three other beds beeping and someone's just handed me a baby.
15:41Yeah.
15:41We can actually do more with these mannequins.
15:43We can catheterize some of them.
15:46And we can actually fill some of their bladders with urine.
15:50And we don't tend to do that too much because it's electrical and...
15:55It's a bit of a panic sometimes.
15:57Yeah.
15:57And I know myself and several lecturers have spent a lot of...
16:01A few times running into the office going,
16:03I need a bag of foreskins because we are doing catheterization
16:08and we require that and they come in a little bag
16:11and you have to physically put them onto the genitalia.
16:14Right.
16:15I told you.
16:16And you need a new one each time?
16:17No, it's just because we remove them every now and then
16:20because obviously some people are circumcised, some people are not.
16:22So when you get to your mannequin and you're like,
16:24oh, actually, I could really do with one that has a foreskin.
16:27Okay.
16:28Because it adds a level of complexity for doing a catheterization.
16:31Right.
16:32I'm really glad people are training for things like that.
16:35It's just, it's a thing that you'd never think of as a layperson.
16:38No.
16:39And that's the one thing with all our sims, with the tech team that we have,
16:44we're able to ask for really random things.
16:48It's kind of normal there, it really is.
16:52Sophie is one of several people on the clinical simulation technical team
16:55and that team gets some requests that really only make sense in this context.
17:00You can literally say anything and it does not bother us at all.
17:05Like I've had people coming in like, can we have some poo?
17:08Yes, that's fine.
17:09Um, yeah.
17:10Any sort of question really.
17:12We're just like, yeah, that's fine.
17:13We'll just walk in across campus with a bowl of urine.
17:16It's normal.
17:18Or if we require a particular smell.
17:20So there's certain smells within healthcare,
17:23which sounds very strange, but if you smell that smell, it means certain things.
17:29Yeah.
17:29So there's something called melina, which is basically a bleed, but it's from the bowel.
17:37So when someone basically passes faeces, it will be a different colour and it'll smell almost irony.
17:46Right.
17:47Once you've smelt that, once you've seen that, you know that that's quite an emergency sort of situation.
17:53And that's not going to be in any textbook.
17:54No.
17:55Like the description is, but that's not going to help you have that realisation.
17:59It's that immersive thing and this is why the ward's best when it's noisiest.
18:04Yeah.
18:04It smells like hospital ward.
18:06Right, it has to.
18:07This is your heads up for where the goo starts.
18:10We're going to talk about moulage and the art of applying wounds.
18:13We head over to see Chris, a mannequin built to represent a transgender patient
18:18who's been on testosterone, on tea.
18:20And as far as the team there knew, that's the only medical mannequin in the world
18:25that represents someone who's trans.
18:27They're based on someone that's been on tea for six years.
18:30Right.
18:30So if you notice, the nipples are quite engorged, that's quite common.
18:34Facial hair, so we have actual facial hair, chest hair.
18:38Yep.
18:38And that's all individually done.
18:40Obviously, I know you're not going to be able to show this on YouTube.
18:43Well, Chris's genitals are exactly what they would be for someone that's on tea.
18:48It's been on tea because there are going to be changes there.
18:50Yes.
18:50So we have engorged labia and an engorged clitoris hood.
18:55We did have plans to get another transgender mannequin, male to female.
19:00However, the company was taken over by a US company and they stopped making them.
19:05Which is really unfortunate.
19:07Yeah.
19:07Yeah.
19:08Yeah.
19:08Sometimes they don't tell the students that Chris is trans,
19:11because if Chris was a patient arriving to a hospital unconscious and alone,
19:16no one's going to tell the doctors then.
19:17We've actually added a bit of moulage today.
19:20I shall say Sophie has.
19:21Oh, that's new today.
19:22Yes.
19:23Right.
19:24So Sophie's done it today.
19:25I was going to say, as top surgery scars go, something's wrong there.
19:28Yes, very much so.
19:29And the reason we've kind of done it like this is because when we talk about, like,
19:33gender-affirming care, the waitlist is so long that people are choosing to go abroad.
19:38Oh, yes.
19:40Which adds a level of complexity and an increased chance of infection.
19:45So this is representative if Chris had gone abroad or even in the UK and things have gone wrong.
19:51The mannequin has regular top surgery scars as default, but the things that went wrong,
19:57additional redness, the wound, that was not part of the mannequin, that was Sophie's work.
20:01That day, a one-off piece just for this video.
20:05And it's not just superficial.
20:09Oh, oh, wow, that's...
20:14Gory?
20:14Yes, I didn't expect that. I mean, of course it's realistic.
20:20Of course that's exactly what would happen.
20:22What are you using for that? Like, what's...
20:25So that is actually Vaseline petroleum jelly.
20:29No kidding.
20:29There was quite an in-depth conversation last week about,
20:32can we make it, like, look thicker? Can we make it look a bit greener?
20:38That was happening between us two.
20:41Trying to figure out, like, I want it to be accurate.
20:45And Sophie's incredible.
20:46And you've got the experience to know.
20:48You'll have seen stuff like that in reality.
20:51That's what we would call quite a sluffy wound.
20:53Sluffy, okay.
20:54Sluffy. And would probably require a bit of packing.
20:59Because as that drains out, there's going to be a cavity.
21:03More than likely, well, I know there's a cavity because she made one.
21:07But there'll be a cavity that will require packing,
21:09because when we're dealing with wounds, we heal from the inside out.
21:13We don't heal from the outside because that cavity still will be there.
21:17Yeah.
21:17And it will work as close as you can make it to the real thing.
21:20Yeah.
21:21Wow.
21:22It's so unbelievably accurate.
21:25It's really cool.
21:26I got very excited.
21:28I have to ask, may I?
21:30Yeah, okay.
21:32Wait, wait, wait, because we're health care.
21:34Oh, yes.
21:35No, apologies.
21:36I mean, that will also mean I don't have to clean my hands much, but thank you.
21:40If you want to give it a wipe as well, just in case.
21:44This feels extremely uncomfortable for me,
21:47but I imagine not as uncomfortable as a patient who hadn't had so.
21:52May I?
21:53Yeah.
21:53Yeah, yeah.
21:53I don't want to ruin your heart.
21:56Oh.
21:58Yeah, that's...
22:00That is setting off a very slight, not nausea reaction,
22:04but you know that reaction where your mouth...
22:06Yeah, fills up with a saliva.
22:08Just in case you might throw up later.
22:11Yeah.
22:11Just a little bit of that reaction.
22:13All right, I'm going to put that in the waste bag.
22:15Thank you very much.
22:16If you've ever seen a video of something gross
22:19and wondered why your mouth was watering,
22:21it's not because you're hungry.
22:22It's because your brain is thinking you might need to throw up soon
22:25and that'll make it easier.
22:27So that's the ward.
22:29I said thank you to Kay,
22:30and then Sophie took me over to another building to see two other mannequins.
22:35They checked that I was okay with seeing some blood and gore,
22:39and then they told me very little else
22:41other than the simulation would begin when I pulled back the towel.
22:45I switched to my 360 camera and set up a few others,
22:47because whatever was about to happen, it was going to happen very fast.
22:52Hi.
22:54Hi.
22:55I'm Tom, nice to meet you.
22:57Nice to meet you, Anjay.
22:58Who's this?
23:00So this is one of our trauma mannequins.
23:03Okay, that's blood.
23:03If you want to pull the towel back.
23:06Right, that's blood.
23:06Wait, are we...
23:07Am I basically...
23:08Yeah.
23:09Okay, I'm doing the job.
23:10Okay, sure.
23:12Okay, let's pull back.
23:14But I'm...
23:14Oh my god, okay.
23:17That's...
23:17Right.
23:18What do I do?
23:19That's a bloody stump with the bones sticking out of it,
23:22with active bleeding.
23:23I mean, blood is pumping out of there.
23:26We'll get a close-up later, I didn't have time in the moment,
23:28because immediately I was handed a tourniquet and told to stop the bleeding.
23:31You want to get that tourniquet around the...
23:34Oh my god, okay.
23:35Yeah.
23:38And then pull it nice and tight there.
23:41Yeah, thank you.
23:43Now, half of my brain knows that this is all fake, right?
23:46Half of my brain knows that I'm on camera.
23:48I'm not going to say I was fully convinced,
23:50but there is something about seeing the blood and gore that startled me into believing it
23:56more than I otherwise would.
23:57Part of my brain was treating it like a nightmare,
24:00where you're still in school and you haven't prepared for the test.
24:03Like, I am in scrubs, attending a patient on the floor
24:06that part of my brain has accepted is bleeding out and dying in front of me,
24:10and someone is handing me a tourniquet, and I don't know how to do this.
24:15And then you want to twist.
24:16Twist that bit there.
24:17Twist that bit there.
24:18Yeah.
24:21And then you want to tuck it in.
24:26Like...
24:26Let me help you, yeah.
24:29I'm having a full-on panic here!
24:31Okay, yeah, I got that completely wrong because I...
24:34Yeah.
24:34So that wants to go under the leg.
24:36Oh my god.
24:37And then you want to twist that.
24:39And it tucks in there?
24:40Nice and tight, yeah.
24:41And then that goes over the top.
24:44There we go.
24:45And stop the bleeding.
24:47I was bad at that.
24:49The patient would have died.
24:51I should learn first aid because if that had been a real emergency situation,
24:55I would probably have been much worse than that.
24:57The blood is theatrical blood, the same stuff used in stage productions,
25:01and as for where it was coming from,
25:03you see that blue towel conveniently covering a bit of the ground?
25:07What's going on behind there?
25:09Is there someone pumping?
25:10Yeah.
25:11Right.
25:12Okay.
25:14Sure.
25:15The technician didn't want to be on camera,
25:16but they're using one of those garden hand pump pressure sprayers
25:20to push the blood through.
25:21Anyway, we put a blast bandage on the patient,
25:24which I was also incompetent at.
25:26So just be careful because there is a bone sticking out there.
25:28Yeah, there is.
25:29It can be quite sharp.
25:31That also stops the patient seeing their mangled leg if they wake up.
25:35And then with the other bit of the leg,
25:36we want to put in a bag and take it to the hospital with the patient.
25:40Okay. Do we have the other bit of the leg?
25:42Uh, we don't.
25:43Okay.
25:44That bleeding limb was made by Sophie for this video.
25:48The mannequin is just missing a lower leg.
25:51It's not bloody or gory by itself.
25:52The team now get to reuse that bleeding limb prosthetic in a load of other situations.
25:57That's an asset that they'll have for a while, but they wanted something shocking,
26:00and I was shocked.
26:02So, last thing, let's do the close-up.
26:06So, yeah, that's without tourniquet.
26:09That's incredibly disgusting.
26:12I don't know if I can show that.
26:15Also, Jay, who handed me the tourniquet,
26:17he's seen plenty of things like this for real.
26:21To the mystery technician behind the screen,
26:24who I know doesn't want to be on camera,
26:25could you start pumping again, please?
26:27Could you...
26:30Oh, my God!
26:32Is that a realistic amount of blood?
26:34Or is that low or high or...?
26:37That is a realistic amount of blood.
26:38That's a realistic amount of blood?
26:39Yeah, if we get there in time.
26:40So, that would be about, I mean, what, there's eight pints in a person?
26:45About six litres.
26:46Six litres.
26:47Six litres, yeah.
26:48So, yeah, you're going to lose six litres very quickly, even at that rate.
26:51You are.
26:51I feel weird doing that, but that's...
26:55How realistic is that?
26:56Is that...?
26:57That is very realistic.
26:58Okay.
26:58Yeah, that is as close to real that we can get it.
27:01Wow.
27:01So, yeah.
27:02The only thing I would say is that there's no smell.
27:05So, in real life, you would be able to smell the iron in the blood.
27:08Right.
27:09This, you can't, but everything else looks real.
27:12Thanks, folks.
27:16Next time, I drive something nicknamed the floating coffin,
27:19get scared by a moth, and apologise to a seagull.
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