Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Going through my phone to make space, came across the 'daughter trying to steal my beer' collection ❤️ 020
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Always had a soft spot for my first proper fuck-it script, Anastasis. Was a @scriptpipeline.bsky.social QF, a @screencraft.bsky.social SF and Barnstorm shortlist. One day, it shall get made 😄 030
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 07/04/2025New week, new me. Daily writing, better diet, exercise, no booze. Let's get this script cracked and try feeling more healthy. Day 1! #scriptsky 090
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 10/02/2025One of my favourite scene descriptions in my most recent medical horror 😁 #scriptsky #scriptskyuk 2151
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Rewatching Toy Story 'cause the kids are obsessed with it. Does this scene remind anyone else of Resident Evil, or the old top-down horror games? 🤔 #scriptsky 191
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 16/01/2025This is the best book ever written. End of. 010
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Absolutely motoring through this book. Horror at its finest 🎉 020
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 27/12/2024What was this cheeky lil fella doing hunting on my front garden?! 🦔 080
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Christmas celebrations with the kids ❤️ 010
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 19/12/2024If we aren't all writing like Honoré de Balzac, are we even writing?! 🤷♂️ #scriptsky #screenwriting 110
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Eldest daughter had her 5th birthday yesterday. Nothing gives me as much entertainment as showing her a picture of her at one day old, when she looked like a grumpy burrito 😁 130
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I’ve also read a lot of scripts recently where someone has CPR and then, when their heart restarts, they’re remarkably chipper about, well, having died and had their chest brutalised! People take a while to recover from CPR! (9) 100
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Another reason CPR is exhausting is because of the depth you need to go. Recommendations in adults are 2 – 2.5 inches (5-6cm). It’s essential to allow the chest to recoil again after a compression, otherwise the heart won’t be able to refill. (8) 100
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 16/12/2024CPR should be performed with interlocked fingers, straight arms, using the heel of the hand to compress over the lower part of the sternum (breastbone). The rate of CPR is recommended at 100-120 compressions per minute – ‘Stayin’ Alive’ is the classic tune that’s used! (6) 100
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I’ll start with some basics. CPR should be started when there’s no discernible pulse, or certain rhythms (asystole, PEA, VF or pulseless VT). Before starting CPR, open the airway with a ‘head tilt, chin lift’. Rescue breaths at the start can be given in kids or after drowning. (5) 100
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Welcome to MEDICAL MISSTEPS 2 – today I’ll be talking about CPR, when it’s done and more importantly, HOW it’s done. Apologies for the time between my posts – both my children have had chickenpox (the youngest is currently extremely poxy!) so things have been busy! (1) #scriptsky 151
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Gonna do something a little different for #FirstPageFriday this week - here's what I've been working on the last little while. Maybe I should just say first paragraph Friday, because here's the first paragraph of my ongoing novelisation of 'Inpatient', my first script 😁 #scriptsky 080
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Anyone else like Simpsons-themed beers with a disgustingly high ABV? Then come join me on this entertaining TIPA journey! Brewed by Pentrich Brewery, this absolute behemoth is passionfruit forward, with a sweetness that's nicely cut through with grapefruit. Balanced, smooth, delightful 010
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Ah sweet, finally get my youngest to bed after bloody ages. Never mind, sure she'll be fine, let me just check on her monitor to see OH GOOD LORD!! 020
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Really proud to be a part of so much awesomeness and so many ace writers! If anyone fancies reading my sci-fi pilot N.E.S.S. (let's face it - it's also a horror. And a comedy... 😏) please please do. It wants a home, cause the characters loads to say #ORIGINALSBUREAU2025 #scriptsky #scriptskyUK 9406
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 30/11/2024She may have chickenpox, but it won't stop her hanging the tree 020
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Managed to get out the house to buy a Christmas tree. He was, however, all up in my grill while I was trying to drive... 000
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Bloody hell, that's a weight off my shoulders 2161
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024And yet again, despite proof reading, I messed up my pictures and repeated #8 😂😂 It was supposed to show the ALS algorithm Next time will be better, he says confidently... 150
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Ultimately, my gripe is this – you never shock a flatline. Ever. Because it does nothing. Your patient is dead, and you need to restart their heart, not randomly send electricity through them. Call for help, start CPR, then treat as per ALS protocol. (8/9) 181
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024A couple of other points – if you’re defibbing a patient, there should be no open oxygen circuit within 2 metres of the patient, nobody should be touching the bed (otherwise you can shock them too!) and the body doesn’t jump off the table. You’re only using normally 120-200 joules! (7/9) 140
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Some rhythms which are ‘shockable’ include ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT). In these cases a rhythm is present, but it’s not compatible with proper cardiac output, so the defib stops the bad rhythm and lets the pacemaker take over again (6/9) 160
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024However dramatic it is for someone to come across, scream “CLEAR!” and zap them back to life, there is no rhythm to correct in the patient. This lack of activity responds to CPR and adrenaline, however prognosis is poor (success rate between 5-15%) – I’ll discuss CPR another time (5/9) 150
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Below is asystole (or ‘flatline’). Present in approx. 30% of hospital cardiac arrests, it shows a lack of electrical cardiac activity. This is the time in a film when all hell breaks loose, crash buzzers go, there’s loads of shouting and drama, accompanied by a very loud ‘BEEEEEEEP’ (4/9) 140
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Before I go into what rhythms respond to a defib, let’s quickly look at a normal heart tracing. Below is a normal ECG. The P wave is the heart’s pacemaker kickstarting the electrical activity of the heart, the QRS complex is the muscular ventricles contracting, and the T wave is them relaxing (3/9) 130
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Defibrillation is the delivery of electrical current to the heart in an attempt to stop unusual rhythms. If the heart is in a bad rhythm, it pumps poorly, meaning blood doesn’t get to where it needs to go, and all of our organs most definitely need blood (2/9) 150
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024#scriptsky Morning, all! Here’s my inaugural ‘MEDICAL MISSTEPS’ for film / TV (2nd attempt cause I messed the hashtag!) Know I’m followed by medical practitioners, so let me know if I drop the ball on anything! Gonna start with defibrillation - when to do it, and when to definitely NOT do it (1/9) 2218
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Love the fact that my wife's answer to me falling asleep on the couch with Dotty is to take a picture 😂 060
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 23/11/2024My characters do feel this kinda 'final shot' vibe 😂 110
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 22/11/2024For #FirstPageFriday, here's my stage-play slash short, 'A Play in One Act'. It's got everything you want from a ten-page, two-character, one-stage production. Pretention. Iambic pentameter. Marital discourse. Infanticide. And did I mention iambic pentameter? 1110
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 17/11/2024#Sciptsky describe your current WIP using only 2 posters 020
Simon Laurence Doyle @simondoyle87.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Besides writing and doctoring, my other passion is good beer. Here's tonight's offering - a pineapple, yuzu and lychee sour with cardamom from Pomona Island. Fiercely sharp tartness, beautiful pineapple and lychee sweetness and the cardamom is a welcome warmth at the end. Belies its 6.5% ABV 🍻 020
