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24 Hours in A&E viewers horrified as foot dangles off of woman in ‘worst thing ever seen on TV’
VIEWERS of 24 Hours in A&E have been left horrified by what they have labelled as the 'worst thing ever'.
WARNING: Description of Graphic Content follows.
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The popular Channel 4 programme showing all matters of medical emergencies and dramas returned last night for its 30th season.
Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham is the basis for the show where viewers saw Kirsty arrive with a horrific compound fracture on her right leg.
Fans of the show were informed that Kirsty's foot was being held in place purely by a 'little bit of skin' and 'some ligament'.
As they rushed to deal with the gruesome injury, a nurse could be heard explaining: "She's going to need some ketamine."
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Nurse Lou Davis, a resident nurse with over 32 years experience in the department, was quick to quip that it was one of the 'grimmest' injuries she had ever seen.
Lou admitted that she 'didn't like wobbly bones' and joked she wasn't sure how she ended up working in A+E.
The veteran nurse opened up about the injury, saying: "It was horrific. We'd received a telephone call to say someone was coming in with a compound fracture so when she came through the door and her foot was hanging off I was just shocked because usually you get some sense of what you're going to be confronted by.
"The fact that she kept her foot is incredible. When they put it back in I thought I was going to vomit... the bit they didn't show is graphic. When you look at Kirsty you're not looking at just the guy that put her foot back, you're looking at the probably 200 people who saved her foot, and she's got to be at the front of that as she could have said 'take the bloody thing off'.
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It left viewers at home recoiling at seeing such graphic imagery on the show.
Taking to Twitter, one fan said: "Genuinely think that broken ankle on 24 Hours in A&E was the worst thing I've ever seen on TV."
Another comment quickly followed up in agreement, writing: "I've watched every series of 24 Hours in A&E and have never seen anything as graphic as that foot."
A third viewer was left stunned at what she had seen, adding: "Omgggg 24 Hours in A&E!! Ankle hanging on by a thread... literally."
Whilst a fourth revealed the shocking injury had left them frightened, saying: "Well, that poor woman's foot hanging off in 24 Hours in A&E had made me too scared to even walk up the stairs again."
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