The GNAAS crews had a busy weekend, here is an update from some of the incidents that they attended.
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to Sunderland on Friday, at around 4.25pm, where a man had fallen over and suffered a serious head injury. The 26-year-old was put into an induced coma on scene by the GNAAS doctor-led trauma team with assistance from North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) paramedics. The patient, believed to be local, was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI), Newcastle, by road ambulance and he arrived at hospital in a stable condition.
On Saturday, at 2pm, the GNAAS Guardian of the North aircraft and crew members were called to a two car road traffic collision in Chollerford, Northumberland. The GNAAS doctor-led aircrew worked alongside NEAS paramedics and Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service on scene. A 68-year-old woman, believed to be local, was treated for serious back, chest and abdominal injuries before being flown to the RVI in just ten minutes; this same journey by road would have taken around 35 minutes. She arrived in a stable condition. Two other patients were taken to hospital by road ambulance.
Later on Saturday, at 3.30pm, GNAAS was called to Angle Tarn Pikes, near Patterdale, to assist Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) with a man who had fallen around 160 feet into a ghyll while running. The patient, believed to be in his 20s and from Warrington, sustained serious head, leg and arm injuries in the fall while competing in a fell race. The GNAAS Pride of Cumbria aircraft was unable to land close to the patient and therefore had to land on the valley floor. The aircrew doctor and paramedic made their way to the injured patient which took around 25 minutes before they proceeded to assess and treat his injuries. He was placed onto a MRT stretcher and lowered to the valley floor by Patterdale MRT before being transported to the waiting GNAAS helicopter by their Land Rover. He was flown to the Royal Preston Hospital (RPH) in a flight that took just 20 minutes and he arrived in a stable condition.
On Sunday, at 10.25am, the GNAAS Pride of Cumbria aircraft was called to Ingleton, near Barnard Castle, where a motorcyclist had left the road and hit a road sign. The 40-year-old man sustained head, chest and leg injuries in the collision. The GNAAS doctor-led aircrew treated the patient with assistance from NEAS before he was flown to James Cook University Hospital (JCUH), Middlesbrough. The flight to hospital took just ten minutes, this same journey by road would have taken around 40 minutes. He arrived at hospital in a stable condition.
From JCUH, at 11.55am, GNAAS was called to Middlesbrough where a three-year-old boy had been hit by a car and had sustained head, arm and leg injuries. He was treated by the GNAAS doctor-led aircrew and paramedics from NEAS. He was transported to JCUH by land ambulance with the GNAAS aircrew due to the proximity of the hospital. He arrived in a stable condition.
As the aircrew were leaving JCUH, at 12.45pm, they were called to Yarm where a motorbike and a car had collided. A 49-year-old man was treated by the GNAAS trauma team for serious neck, pelvic and leg injuries. The man was found to need a blood transfusion. The GNAAS doctor administered one unit of blood and one unit of plasma to the patient. He was flown to JCUH in a flight that took just five minutes, the same journey by road would have taken around 20 minutes. He arrived in a stable condition.
At 1.50pm yesterday, the GNAAS Guardian of the North aircraft was called to Brunton, Northumberland, where a cyclist had gone over the top of his handlebars and sustained a head injury. The 71-year-old man was put into an induced coma by the GNAAS doctor-led aircrew before he was flown to the RVI.
At 3.55pm, the Pride of Cumbria aircraft was called to Weardale where a motorbike had collided with a fence. The 50-year-old male rider sustained back and pelvic injuries in the collision. He was treated by the GNAAS aircrew and paramedics from NEAS for his injuries before he was flown to the RVI in just 20 minutes. He arrived in a stable condition. The Pride of Cumbria aircraft then made its way back to the Cumbrian airbase in Langwathby.
At 4.20pm, GNAAS was called to Seaham where a man had fallen from a bicycle and sustained head and facial injuries. The GNAAS doctor-led aircrew treated the 40-year-old man before he was flown to the RVI in a flight that took just nine minutes, this same journey by road would have taken around 35 minutes.
At 6.40pm, the GNAAS Pride of Cumbria aircraft and crew were called to Levens, near Kendal, where a car and a cyclist had collided. The 19-year-old male cyclist sustained neck, pelvic, leg and head injuries in the collision. He was treated for his injuries by the GNAAS doctor-led aircrew and paramedics from the North West Ambulance Service. He was then flown to the RPH in a flight that took just 15 minutes with. The same journey by road taking around 40 minutes. He arrived at hospital in a stable condition.
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