Doctors at Hull's A&E treating patients of stabbings every week
An emergency consultant at Hull Royal Infirmary has been speaking to Viking as part of our #NoMoreKnives campaign.
Last updated 29th May 2018
Viking's been told that doctors at Hull's A & E department are treating patients of stabbings every week.
Emergency Consultant Ben Rayner has been speaking to us as part of our No More Knives campaign to warn kids that carrying a knife could cost a life.
He's revealed that the hospital's treated 11 patients for knife crime injuries in the last 4 months and it's mainly young people in their 20s falling victim.
Ben told Viking:
"I have seen people have very minor injuries that we have simply treated and then let them go home all the way through to fatalities. We always plan for the worst and we don't assume just because a patient looks relatively well when they come in, they haven't got internal bleeding or are going to deteriorate.
"Clearly if the patient is really sick when they arrive, it is a serious incident and even if the patient arrives and they look particularly well, it still can be a serious incident but we always do prepare for the worst.
"A stab wound to the torso because there are more vulnerable organs in there is usually more serious than stab wounds to the limbs, saying that stab wounds to the limbs can still severe some fairly major blood vessels which can cause significant bleeding.
"All we know is that the knife has gone through that one point in the skin so it might just be a little cut but we don't know what direction that wound has gone in or how far and that is information we quickly have to put together.
"A lot of the deaths that happen and I see, there is a degree of avoidability in them and you do think it is a bit of a waste.
"Seeing patients like this, it does have a degree of effect on you but you do have to sometimes detach a little bit otherwise you wouldn't be able to carry on doing the job you do."