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Charity and West Midlands Ambulance
Service MERIT. I’ve held an interest in care
of the trauma patient for many years –
probably stemming from my time at the
school on CCF army camps being taught
to manage bleeding limbs!
“I have taught on the European Trauma
Course in both the UK and Ireland for the
last six years and was invited to Ukraine
as part of a multi-national faculty from
Germany, Portugal, Ireland and the UK
owing to my previous experience both
On 28 April Ryan O’Leary (K95-01)
teaching and working in major trauma
headed to Ukraine for 昀椀ve weeks at the
systems. I was honoured to be asked
request of the World Health Organisation,
and very happy to help – the trauma
following a plea from the Ukrainian
systems in Ukraine are continuing to have
Ministry of Health to help them establish
to deal with various horri昀椀c ballistic and
a European Trauma Course (ETC) – a
blast injuries due to the ongoing con昀氀ict,
Europe-wide method for managing
and anything that we can do to help
patients who have su昀昀ered major trauma.
them establish a system to improve 昀氀ow
He spent four solid weeks teaching ETC
through their hospitals for managing
in order to identify Ukrainian doctors who
trauma victims will, in turn, hopefully save
could act as instructors. He ended up
Ukrainian lives.”
with 94 Ukrainians trained in ETC, and
12 Ukrainian full instructors, with several
Lauren Sutton (M00-05) visited the
others well on their way to obtaining full
College to see the Chris Lenton exhibition
instructor status. He will be returning at a
with partner Tom. She was able to meet
later date to teach again and help embed
her former Housemistress, now retired,
ETC in the Ukrainian health system.
Helen Myers-Allen, also at the event.
He says: “I have never met such a
Lauren went to Oxford Brookes University
patriotic group of people – this was a truly
after school to do a B.Ed. in primary
humbling and moving experience.”
teaching and used it as a passport to
He goes on to say: “By way of
employment, initially in Norfolk. She left
background, I’m a consultant in
to work in the hotel and hospitality trade
anaesthesia and intensive care medicine
in Mexico and on the island of Kos and did
in Hereford in the West Midlands, and also
volunteer animal work with the sun bears
a helicopter emergency medical services
and orangutans in Borneo.
and pre-hospital emergency medicine
The young couple have a son, Flynn,
doctor with Midlands Air Ambulance
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