Tuesday 9th January 2018 – 5.20pm – Claire Brown.
A man has been given advanced trauma care by ambulance staff this afternoon following a road traffic collision.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the junction of Redditch Road and Granshaw Close in Kings Norton, Birmingham at around 3.30pm this afternoon (Tuesday). Two ambulances, a paramedic officer, the West Midlands CARE Team medics and a MERIT trauma doctor and air crew from the Cosford Air base attended the scene by response car. A non-emergency patient transport service crew who were passing also stopped and assisted at the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “When ambulance staff arrived they found a motorcyclist, a man, being cared for by off duty nurses and passers-by. The man had sustained multiple serious injuries which required the medics and ambulance staff to work closely as a team to administer advanced trauma care quickly to help stabilise his condition.
“Once the team were happy the man could be moved, he was fully immobilised and taken by land ambulance on blue lights to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. A doctor travelled with the patient to continue assessment en route.”
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PTS crew was on scene and helped paramedics untill they left for the hospital.
Hi Becky…apologies for missing this out. Sadly, there was nothing in the notes about the important role you guys played in helping in the treatment of this rider. I’ve updated our release. Thank you for letting us know.
Hi Becky that’s great to hear! Had we of known in the Press Office we would’ve mentioned them in the press release.