A student who collapsed outside a club has.

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A student who collapsed outside a club has revealed her horror as doctors told her they feared she had been spiked with a needle on 24 Hours in A&E.<br>Kate, 21, appeared on the show last night as she was rushed to Queen’s Medical Centre after suddenly falling unconscious in a night club in .<br>The medical team said they were extremely concerned she could fall into cardiac arrest, before waking her and informing her they feared she had been stabbed on the night out.<br>Many of those watching the programme were horrified by Kate’s ordeal, with one writing: ‘I’d be sobbing and so scared if this happened to me – those poor women.’ <br> Kate, 21,  who collapsed outside a club, has revealed her horror as doctors told her they feared she had been spiked with a needle on 24 Hours in A&E<br> RELATED ARTICLES

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Another commented: ‘These poor girls.
Not only have they been spiked, they’ve potentially been exposed to hepatitis and HIV. Why are people so disgusting?'<br>’People who spike women need locking up and the key throwing away,’ one added.<br>A fourth added: ‘So no matter how much you protect your drink when they have ways to get the drugs into your blood stream much quicker!

Shocking and terrifying.’ <br>Appearing on the programme last night, her close friend Harrison, who was with her at the time, said: ‘Me and Kate bumped into each other at various points in the night, she looked like she was having a good time.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Many of those watching the programme were horrified by Kate’s ordeal, saying they would be ‘sobbing’ and ‘so scared’ if it happened to them <br>’At the last point, I suggested getting some food and leaving.

As me and Kate were walking down the staircase towards the exit, I noticed she stopped.<br>’In the space of 90 seconds, she’d gone from the Kate I know and love, to on the staircase, her eyes rolled back, knees buckled and she fell.’ <br>He continued: ‘Every time she breathed in, it was like a gasp for air as if she’d just come up for water.<br>'”Why is my friend on the floor? Why isn’t she speaking? Why can’t she stand up?”‘<br> The student appeared on the Channel 4 show last night as she was rushed to Queen’s Medical Centre after suddenly falling unconscious in a night club in Nottingham<br>’I called an ambulance and they asked me to start administering CPR.

That was the most worrying part because you start to think, she’s in real trouble here. <br>’And if you do something wrong, then you’re looking at a really bad outcome for a friend.'<br>’You replay it in your mind a lot, you look back on it and think, “Could I have done anything differently to stop any of this happening?” I could lose my mate.'<br>With Kate safely in A&E, paramedics explained she wasn’t responding but had been trying to vomit. <br> Initially staff at the hospital were unable to wake Kate, and grew increasingly worried about whether she might go into cardiac arrest <br>Sarah, one of the nurses, said she was extremely concerned about whether she could go into respiratory arrest and cardiac arrest. <br>Sarah said: ‘You automatically think alcohol or drugs are involved.

We can give drugs to help reverse it. But it is important to help us rule out every option as well.'<br>Kate awoke and, feeling confused, asked the medical team why she was at the hospital.<br>She told doctors that her arm hurt but it wasn’t clear why, with Sarah saying: ‘If a patient has collapsed, it can be a bit of a mystery.'<br> Clinicians were concerned she had been spiked with a needle and began searching for a puncture wound, confessing it could be difficult to find because it could be so small<br>Clinicians were concerned she had been spiked with a needle and began searching for a puncture wound, confessing it could be difficult to find because it could be so small.<br>The team began studying her arms to see if there were any marks on her, saying: ‘Do you think there’s a possibility you could have been injected anywhere at all?'<br>Sarah said: ‘It can be very very difficult to find where these marks are.'<br>Kate said she didn’t know if she could have been injected, with Sarah saying: ‘We’ve had a few people coming in and they’ve been injected and they’ve been in the same places as you.

And we don’t know with what.’ <br> At the end of the programme, Kate explained how she had been impacted by the spiking, confessing it had made her more anxious during nights out <br>Gemma, one of the advanced practitioners, spoke to Kate about what she could or couldn’t recall about the night out.<br>She said: ‘I remember two people were carrying me down the stairs.

Nothing like this has happened before.<br>’I did drink but it was nothing excessive. I went out for dinner and it was lovely.’ <br>Gemma told her: ‘People are reporting they felt a pinprick and then they found a lump or a scratch the next day. <br>’The plan is for me to inspect everywhere on your body and Slot Bonus we don’t know what’s been happening with this trend, we just want to check you over.'<br>Doctors went on to check her heart rate, before saying all her blood tests had all come back fine and normal. <br> RELATED ARTICLES

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Kate was monitored for two days before doctors released her, and she confessed the situation had affected her for weeks afterwards.<br>She said: ‘I remember at one point I stood in a corner, so I knew no one could be behind me.<br>’I just cried loads.

I just let it all out – it was the first time I’d cried or been upset since it happened.<br>’It took me a while to get back to normal really, but it is something that you can’t let affect you.’        <br>In October 2021, women in Liverpool, Edinburgh and Dundee of victims reported being pierced with a needle in their leg, hands and back before waking up with no recollection of the night before – symptoms similar to those who have had their drinks spiked with so-called date rape drugs. <br>Those targeted with needles also carry the risk of shared or unclean needles being used, posing threats of HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. <br><div class=”art-ins mol-factbox femail” data-version=”2″ id=”mol-e95ebc30-a21b-11ed-a332-3d3d61023e1a” website of 24 Hours in A&E left horrified by needle spiking story

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