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C4TS Outreach Day a Success
July 14, 2015
C4TS research assistant and outreach lead, Scarlett Gillespie, posts about her experience at our latest STEM engagement:
"Monday 29th June saw the trauma team pack up the car with our 'science of the bleeding obvious' stand to make our way down to the South of England show ground for the Big Bang South East 2015 on Tuesday 30th.
Following an early start to set up the trauma dummy, clot plonk and a new game to highlight the various roles of both healthcare professionals and the research team, we were ready for the arrival of the 7000 children making their way to Ardingly!
Groups of children from across the South Eastern counties came and learnt about various aspects of what our group is involved with. The trauma mannequin gives children the chance to practice saving a life through 'damage control surgery', with some children playing the role of anaesthetist and feeding the 'obs' such as heart rate and blood pressure back to the rest of the budding surgeons!
Clot plunk gives us the opportunity to talk through the formation of blood clots including the roles of platelets and the protein fibrin, and how an alteration in this process can be devastating. We also linked this in to the ACITII trial currently being conducted in the group.
The new trauma team game gave us the opportunity to highlighting the wide range of professions supporting a trauma patients journey through the hospital from the ED consultant in A&E to the researchers carrying out new studies in our team.
With the large groups attending, the day was action packed and non stop. The team delivered a really great overview of some of the brilliant work conducted both at Royal London Hospital and within C4TS. Over 20 school groups passed through our exhibition and the positive feedback from teachers was fantastic!"
