| November 2008 |
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Volunteer emergency
doctor attends RTC in Bilsthorpe
A volunteer emergency doctor
from
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS)
was on the scene of a road traffic accident for most of Tuesday
afternoon (17th
November) on the A614 at Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire to help stabilise
the injured driver.
Dr Mark Folman,
who is a GP in Newark,
was called out by the East Midlands Ambulance Service shortly after 2.00
p.m. to attend to a driver of car that had been in a collision with a
tree. The young driver suffered serious injuries involving his head and
legs and possibly his pelvis. Dr Folman sedated the patient to
facilitate his extraction from the vehicle and then escorted the patient
with the ambulance crew to Queen’s Medical Centre, in
Nottingham,
where his condition was described as serious but stable. The incident
was attended by crews from East Midlands Ambulance Service, the Lincolnshire
and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance and Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue
Service, and Nottinghamshire Constabulary who provided the police escort
on route to hospital. Dr Folman praised the work of the crews which
allowed him to concentrate on making the patient more comfortable and
stress free during the 2 hours that it took to extract him from the
vehicle.Click here for more details
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Incident 7th November 20.30 hrs
Three Northamptonshire based EMICS doctors responded
to the scene of a serious head on collision on the A428 near Crick. Dr
Wyse was the first person on scene and found two cars had collided head
on causing one car to turn over and eject the driver. The driver of the
other car and passenger of the overturned car were both trapped. Two
further EMICS doctors were part of the multiagency response involving
EMAS (2 ambulances), Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue and police. Dr
John Trenfield escorted one casualty with multiple injuries to
Northampton General Hospital. Drs Wyse and Maitland Knibb assisted in
the complex extrication of the remaining casualty who was also taken to
Northampton General Hospital.
Although all volunteers the Northamptonshire based
EMICS doctors work very much as a team and often back each other up on
the most serious cases. Dr Wyse said "this was the sixth incident in the
last three weeks where I have assisted or been assisted at scene by a
colleague"
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VOLUNTEER DOCTORS HELP IN ROAD SAFETY TRAINING
(DEMONSTRATIONS)
Volunteer doctors from the East Midlands Immediate Care
Scheme (EMICS) are getting set to play a significant part in the
National Road Safety Week (10th to 18th November 2008) by showing off
their emergency care procedures as part of mock accident demonstrations.
The campaign – Wasted 08 – is the sequel to a similar event held in
Chesterfield last year – No More Lives Wasted – where a demonstration
attracted a crowd of over 200 in the City Centre late on a December
Saturday evening.
Click here for more details |
| October 2008 |
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A
volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme
(EMICS) was on the scene of an accident for most of Sunday morning (26th
October) in Swinderby, Lincolnshire which led to the closure of one of
the main trunk roads until the early afternoon.
Dr Mark
Folman, who is a GP in Newark, but lives in Swinderby, was called out by
the East Midlands Ambulance Service shortly after 0830 am to attend two
patients who were involved in an incident on the A46 in Swinderby when a
Tractor toppled over as a result of which a lorry swerved and hit the
central reservation. The driver of the tractor suffered serious injuries
involving his head and back. After Dr Folman had assisted the ambulance
crew in stabilising the driver at the scene the patient was transferred
to Lincoln hospital where his condition was described as stable. The
lorry driver is reported to have suffered only minor injuries.
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A
volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme
(EMICS) was on duty again last evening (10.00 pm Sunday 19th October) at
a road traffic collision in Chesterfield.
The five young occupants of a
vehicle that had left the road and collided with a tree, whilst they did
not suffer life threatening injuries, had to be stabilised at the scene
because of suspected spinal or limb injuries. They were all transported
by a fleet of ambulances to Chesterfield Royal Hospital from the site of
the accident in Deepsick Lane, Temple Normanton. The EMICS doctor who
attended the incident was Dr Pam Hardy who is a Consultant in Emergency
Care in North Derbyshire.
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VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY TEAM’S EFFORTS RECOGNISED
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Four
members of the East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS), whose
headquarters are in Rutland, have recently received recognition for
their efforts from local and national bodies.
Dr Pam
Hardy and Mr Andrew Lee, both based in
Derbyshire, have each been recognised by the British Association for
Immediate Care (BASICS) with one of their national BASICS Awards
Dr Tim Gray,
of Oakham, has received the runner-up award in the Lifetime Achievement
category of the Melton and Rutland Stars 2008.
Major Leon Roberts,
of MOD North Luffenham, has just gained his Diploma in Immediate Care
from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
Click here for more details |
| September 2008 |
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1.45am Sunday 28th
September. Two hands can be better than one at times, especially when
you have a seriously injured and trapped casualty. Two doctors from the
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) were involved in the rescue
of the trapped driver of a vehicle involved in a serious road traffic
incident at Mountsorrel in the early hours of Sunday morning. Dr Nick
Foster, an EMICS doctor from Kegworth together with Dr Rod Mackenzie, a
member of our sister scheme MAGPAS in Mid-Anglia, were on the scene of
the accident for 2 hours as the casualty was rescued from the vehicle.
He was anaesthetised on scene and transferred to the Nottingham
University Hospital.
The beauty of our training in pre-hospital
care is our ability to mix our skills across different schemes, and
although Nick and Rod are trained by different schemes, the approach to
patient management is the same and we are taught and follow the same
protocols and management. This means we are able to work closely with
each other without having to communicate verbally and try and explain to
each other what we are doing. Nick explains further , "I can be dealing
with the airway within the vehicle knowing that Rod will take over as
soon as the casualty is extricated from the vehicle having already set
up the anaesthetic ready to intubate the casualty as soon as he appears.
There is seamless continuity."Click here for more details |
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A volunteer doctor from
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS), Dr James Gray, came to the
aid of a police officer who had been seriously stabbed at the Forge
shopping centre in Dronfield, yesterday, (18th September).
The
incident happened at around 4.00 pm and Dr Gray was on the scene very
shortly after the call, just after the arrival of the emergency services
from East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS). The police officer received
multiple stab wounds and was taken into a local shop and cared for by
passers until the emergency services arrived. Dr. Gray supported EMAS in
treating the officer before he was transferred to Chesterfield Royal
Hospital. The police officer is stable in hospital and is expected to
make a full recovery. A person suspected of carrying out the attack was
apprehended near to the scene.
Dr Gray is a GP with a practice in
Sheffield.
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CBRN
training at Derbyshire Fire and Rescue
EMICS doctors are also trained to act as Medical Incident Officers. The
incidents can range from chemical (C), biological (B), radiation (R) and
nuclear (N). They can be called to the front line to liaise and work
alongside Ambulance, Police, Fire & Rescue dealing with major accidents
and incidents. To date these have included the July bombings in London,
the Kegworth Aircrash as well as other chemical and biological events.
This is a recent refresher course held at Alfreton Fire & Rescue
where EMICS doctors were brought up to date with the extensive range of
equipment the Fire & Rescue service now carry when deployed to major
incidents.
Click here for more details
for this and other incidents EMICS have been involved with over that
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August 2008 |
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A1 / A606 incident
Tim Gray, an emergency doctor
from the East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) as well as
emergency crews were called to a five-car pile-up on the A1 slip road
near the A606 just outside Stamford at 1.45pm.
Two women passengers who were trapped in one of the
cars were cut free by fire-fighters. One of the women, who was seriously
injured, was airlifted to Kettering General Hospital by the Warwickshire
and Northamptonshire air ambulance.
A second accident on Saturday involved a black
Volkswagen hit a tree in Station Road, Whissendine. Three people in the
vehicle were injured, two lying on the roadside and one sitting by the
road when fire crews arrived.
Two of the casualties were treated at the scene and
one was taken to Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham.
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Emergency doctor receives personal thanks from
patient
One of the
volunteer emergency doctors from the East Midlands Emergency Care Scheme
Dr Major Leon Roberts
(EMICS) recently had a surprise visit from one of his recent patients
whom he attended on an emergency visit when he was suffering a heart
attack.
Click here to read further details
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Early
start to the day
A call
from Ambulance control at 3.30am on a Sunday morning dispatched an EMICS
doctor to nearby Breedon on the Hill. The early morning meant that it
was still dark. Working with the overhead lights of the fire tenders of
the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue service, the driver of the car was
anaesthetised on scene and transferred to the neurosurgical unit of the
QMC in Nottingham.
Incidents are happening 24 hours a day and in all
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July
2008
SMART@Scene
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East
Midlands Immediate Care Scheme - members have been pivotal in the
production of a new national course.
Click here to read further details
Safety Management And Rescue Techniques @ Scene |
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Multiple
lorry incident
EMICS
doctor, Dr Nicholas Foster, was dispatched to the M1 between junction 24
and 25 to deal with a multiple lorry accident. Both the north and south
bound carriageway's of the M1were closed. First on scene, the main
priority was to prevent further cars becoming involved with the
incident, ensuring the scene was safe, and then rescuing those injured
in the wreckage. Both lanes of the the M1 were closed for 6 hours as the
wreckage was cleared. |
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Northants Emergency Service Expanded
Emergency services in Northamptonshire have gained
an extra boost as a result of the expansion of the number of volunteer
doctors in the East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS).Click
here to read further details
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| June
2008 |
A local GP, Dr Mark Folman,
was first to attend to patients’ injuries at the scene of a three car
road traffic accident this week and was able to provide support to
ambulance service colleagues before two of the injured were transferred
to local hospitals.
Click
here to read further details
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| March
2008 |
A volunteer emergency doctor was first on the scene of
a serious road traffic accident on involving an overturned lorry on the
M1 at Kegworth on Tuesday 18th March; the doctor is a member of the East
Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS).Click
here to read further details
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