Bastardised equipment...

Many moons ago while travelling to Scotland with a group of friends on a well known ferry companys sailing we heard over the speakers a request for medical assistance on the ferry. True to form we made our presence known to the staff on the ferry and we were asked to have a look at a little girl who was acting quite strangely.

The mother said to us that her young daughter (about 4 or 5 years old from what I can remember) had not been herself for the previous day and was now seen to be biting her arm constantly thankfully without doing any actual physical harm.

Finding that her temperature was on the high side we removed excess clothing in an efford to cool her down. It was suggested that we give her some oxygem to see if it relieved some of her obvious distress.

Unfortunately it was discovered at this stage that instead of a standard oxygen delivery system of oxygen cylinder and oxygen mask with small tubing connected to the variable flow metre that delivers a maximum of 15 lpm the tube was jury rigged to the 300 lpm port! Not wanting to add being blown up the poor girls problems we decided not to use this strange system!

We eventually had her transferred to the local hospital when we arrived in port thanks to the assistance of a local NHS crew. We never did find out what was wrong with her so if anyone has any suggestions we would be grateful to hear them.