James Cook Hospital: Last News

A man had three brain operations and ended up in a coma - at the same time as his mum was undergoing cancer treatment.

A frontline consultant has described the 'intense fear' he has witnessed in the eyes of Covid-19 patients in the minutes before they are ventilated.

A dad who died after testing positive for Covid-19 had begged not to be put in a coma because he feared he wouldn't wake up, his heartbroken fiancee says.

Mirror Online.Nick suffered multiple injuries in his near-death experience.He suffered catastrophic leg injuries, broken ribs, shattered vertebrae and had his spinal cord severed in the head on collision with a Kia Venga as he made his way to work in September 2018 in his wife's Vauxhall Astra.The 47-year-old was taken to James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough.Nikki was on the way to a GP appointment when she had a 'sick feeling' on hearing a radio report of the accident, and called to hear a police officer's voice answer her husband's mobile.Yet Nick somehow found the strength to tell his family how much he loved them in what he thought would be his 'last chance' to say goodbye."When the police found the phone, they informed Nikki that I had

A man who survived multiple organ failure and losing both legs after a car crash sent an emotional 'last goodbye' to his wife and son as he lay in the wreckage.