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'I’m lucky to be alive and they said if I didn’t go for surgery in two hours I would be dead” A snapshot of the day in a major trauma unit in the UK BBCWeAreStokeOnTrent

I've been talking with Jon Bingham, a consultant in trauma resuscitation and anaesthesia at the hospital.

We've been talking in the recovery bay of the operating theatre, which is where patients wake up after surgery. This morning, my colleague Allen gave you a flavour of the hospital's plaudits, and all the patients I've been speaking to are full of praise for the staff and their care. But there are still, of course, challenges.Jon says they are seeing more and more knife-related injuries such as stabbings or machete attacks.

"They often involve significant injury, major blood loss, the patients are often awake, they can be agitated and in pain," he said."It gives us a lot of experience and we are dealing with these situations well, but they do put a strain on the system."

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