I was telling my friends and family about a call I went to recently. It involved a toddler hit by a car with possible life changing or life threatening injuries. My colleagues and I were busy – we had a child screaming with a head injury and the pain of numerous broken bones needing our…
Tag Archive: HEMS
Child Bereavement – and having to deal with everything else
Some people just seem to have the worst luck. I was given a call to a road traffic collision (RTC) and the control room asked me to provide a report for HEMS. The initial calls to 999 must have made it sound very serious if they were considering sending the helicopter out. As I pulled…
A little trip to Verona
I had a something of a busman’s holiday recently. I went back to Verona for a few days to visit some of my friends Massimilliano and Alfonso who work for the emergency services there (See my previous posts on visiting an Italian ambulance service: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Last time I went to…
Bullseyed windscreen – Car vs pedestrian RTC
I was working on a car with my colleague Richard when we were called to a RTC (Road Traffic Collision). It was the rush hour, already dark and it had just started to rain. The traffic was dreadful as we neared the scene and even though the drivers were trying their best to move their…
Hoax Caller
It was the last shift before I was due to go on my holidays. It was also a very hot and sunny day. The last thing that I wanted was any jobs that were going to give me any stress or cause me to break in to a sweat. I was simply intent on winding…
Force of impact: F = m x a
Cast your mind back a little… do you remember what you learned in physics in school about kinetic energy? This referred to energy forces from “things in motion” and “impact”? We learned that the weight of an object and its speed have a direct impact on the outcome. Realistically if you double the weight of…
Car versus Tree
The funny thing about our job is you can be having a really ordinary day when suddenly it all changes in an instant. One rainy afternoon recently I was given a call to a ‘Road Traffic collision, car versus tree’ – no more detail than that. As I started to drive the mile or so…
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