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Flying with London's air ambulance - BBC London

Jun 04, 2021
It is very humbling, very rewarding and yes I am very proud to work for the charity, the service has that feeling of being a small high performing team where people always feel part of the family and most days our team will see someone who doesn't. I can't do it and that really gets you because what you want to do is do something that can help reverse that process. It's emotional for us, obviously, our own world. I came very, very close to not being with us and a very small instrument along with a lot. of experience is the reason I am here today when the call comes in every second counts whether in the helicopter during the day or in the rapid response cars at night the London Air Ambulance crews cannot reach the patient as quickly as possible. as quickly as possible It is literally a matter of life or death, it is a good practice routine with 30 years behind it and almost 40,000 airplane missions.
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The team is called to around four or five incidents each day involving some of the most seriously injured patients at the Capital Group they agree to. use cameras because tisha was a bit of life behind the scenes yak at three to four so we just got called to a big two vehicle car accident outside of London. We believe there are several patients who read both doctors. It is even the 27.3 kilometers of unfortunately it is a very common scene for paramedic Chris and doctor cosmos girl. Car accidents account for about 1/3 of the cases for air

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doctors, one of them was in critical condition and had to be put into a medically induced coma. all of his splinted bones have their bleeding controlled and then we had to rush him back to London to the main trauma center right at this junction the next night as London prepares for Christmas, another very familiar scene for the team.
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Good morning how are you? There is no medical need. No, there are no analogies. My name is Dr Davies, I'm with the air

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team, okay I'm just going to take a closer look at you, we'll take you to the ambulance, unfortunately the cyclists who came into contact with it with a truck and got under him, which is certainly a problem we see all too often here ambulance across town in west London the pilots are preparing to take the helicopter into the city for the start of the day, so the plane kept At RAF Northolt our first job is to fly the plane from your thoughts Royal London and then wait for the first job.
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There are many changes in the landscape. The buildings became much taller within a few years. There are many more cranes going up different houses. Different challenges. It's not long before they call for their first job. All we know is that someone is falling from Heights and they need to get there as quickly as possible with the equipment I took on their end. I miss him. There's a place we've been before with London, a bit on the roundabout, but I said whatever. It is full. of Christmas trees today so we had to find another place as a pilot.
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This is my job: to take care of the plane and the medical equipment and get them as quickly as possible to make it safer for the patient. If I think about the patient too much, I get too emotional. It involved the possibility of a blow for that, for the next machine we had to go to the man taken to the hospital. Andy and co-pilot Dave returned to base in the Royal London and for the lunch they left behind, it was absolutely always a risk. Usually when the microwave just went off, Bing is when the call comes in, but yeah, we can always reheat it when he comes back.
He has serious wounds throughout his abdomen. There is an abrasion on the chest between missions and meals. This is what the team does. outside their base on the cold 17th floor they practice running over scenarios from recent cases learning and trying to improve the whole team gets involved Pilar Andy here posing as a relative of the injured patient these scenarios or moulage as they call them are an essential part of the day you have the opportunity to work with the paramedic or the doctor that maybe you haven't worked with in a while, you get the opportunity to think about things at a different pace and then discuss it and that keeps you fresh and keeps you on the Green River board a thoracotomy bag filled sealed the next morning doctor Adobe and her team are checking their equipment it is a daily routine all the teams here do a lot of checks I have not done the checks on that is to make absolutely sure that when we get to the sickest patient let's have absolutely everything we need, you know, you can't come up with a stamp and oh my god, we've forgotten that we should have them, so we make sure we do everything like the grown-ups and archive the stamp trick mini megaphone trick Hard hats may be a familiar sight in the skies over London these days, but 30 years ago there were real doubts about whether the air ambulance would ever take off.
Tower Hamlets Council is to seek an injunction from the high court to prevent the introduction of an emergency helicopter service in east London, then doubts were raised about whether it was really necessary, it was very expensive to run a helicopter service for the few patients it might well benefit, then there was the funding from London. The embattled air ambulance has been dealt another blow with news that a major sponsor is pulling out. Of course it survived and thrived, but the Air Ambulance remains a charity and the NHS only pays for the medical staff. I'm in good shape thanks to Guys, one of those who helps raise the £7 million he needs each year is Nigel Richardson and it's no wonder he's back to meet the men who saved his life just over a year ago when his motorcycle crashed into a truck he had no idea he was in a desperate way he had a horribly injured chest really very serious chest injury both sides of his chest both lungs his ribcage and his airways were very badly injured essentially he was suffocating I was blue I hate to say that there is a large part of me that did not expect to see it again in fact it is fascinating to know how weight saves lives and the complexities in which people survive the accidents they commit in my case you have heard a lot about how I was very , very close to not being with us and a very small instrument along with a lot of experience is the reason I am here today.
The treatment that saved Nigel was considered groundbreaking just a few years ago and air ambulance teams continue to push the boundaries of what is possible for patients receiving treatment on the road. Next, one of the interesting things that I said that we're really seriously considering is that we know that if you bleed to death and you're cold, then you can probably tolerate the blood loss. much more than you can if you have a normal body temperature, so taking someone's body temperature down to 18 degrees or so is very, very cold, keeping the person there so they don't need oxygen circulating through the body, he does not need it.
Needing to get blood circulating throughout the body and then getting it to the operating team so they can fix the holes, fix the broken parts, and then warm the patient back up is a really exciting and doable thing to do in the prehospital care phase. It's a service, so let's move forward dramatically in the last 30 years. It promises even more in the years to come.

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