Floating Fox Posted 21 January 2011 Posted 21 January 2011 Saw two pretty large (looked like Sea Kings to me) Helicopters circling the area and one of them take off from the hospital grounds. Was quite surreal. Looked like army/RAF helo's too. Just wondered if anyone knew wtf was going on!
DB11 Posted 22 January 2011 Posted 22 January 2011 Mum works at Glenfield hospital. I'll ask her tomorrow
Parafox Posted 22 January 2011 Posted 22 January 2011 Saw two pretty large (looked like Sea Kings to me) Helicopters circling the area and one of them take off from the hospital grounds. Was quite surreal. Looked like army/RAF helo's too. Just wondered if anyone knew wtf was going on! Most likely to be an inter-hospital transfer. Generally they use RAF or Navy sea-kings to transfer people (often children) to the ECMO unit, particularly if the patient is on a critical care trolley and has equipment travelling. ECMO is External Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation where the patients blood is re-routed out of the body, through a machine which oxygenates the blood when the patients lungs are too weak or unable to perform their normal function, usually as a result of illness or under-development.
MPH Posted 22 January 2011 Posted 22 January 2011 Saw two pretty large (looked like Sea Kings to me) Helicopters circling the area and one of them take off from the hospital grounds. Was quite surreal. Looked like army/RAF helo's too. Just wondered if anyone knew wtf was going on! Glenfield hospital has some very specific equipment called ECMO treatment that makes it a center of excellence - there are only 5-6 hospitals in the whole of England that use these machines. It basically does the job of the heart. When i was working on the paediatric intensive care Unit we had a kid who was flown in from Aberdeen to receive treatment there - we were the nearest available bed!
Benji Posted 22 January 2011 Posted 22 January 2011 Glenfield hospital has some very specific equipment called ECMO treatment that makes it a center of excellence - there are only 5-6 hospitals in the whole of England that use these machines. It basically does the job of the heart. When i was working on the paediatric intensive care Unit we had a kid who was flown in from Aberdeen to receive treatment there - we were the nearest available bed! Prince William flew someone in recently
MPH Posted 23 January 2011 Posted 23 January 2011 Prince William flew someone in recently Good old willy!
Floating Fox Posted 23 January 2011 Author Posted 23 January 2011 Just seemed strange that there was 2 of them at the same time? Why do they use Military helo's as well, do the ambulance not have any?
davieG Posted 23 January 2011 Posted 23 January 2011 Just seemed strange that there was 2 of them at the same time? Why do they use Military helo's as well, do the ambulance not have any? The Air Ambulance relies on charity donations just to exist. http://www.thebestaround.co.uk/CommunityPages/CharitableOrganisations/DerbyshireLeicestershireRutlandAirAmbulance/tabid/880/language/en-US/Default.aspx The Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA) is based at East Midlands Airport and is a registered charity, it relies totally on public donations, fundraising activities and sponsorship. This service has moved the emphasis away from simply transporting casualties to hospital, to getting senior doctors and consultants to the scene of incidents as quickly as possible. DLRAA conveys its patients to specialist hospitals that can help specific injuries, not just the nearest hospital. DLRAA provides life saving treatment and medication on-site and en-route to hospital. This is an invaluable service in cases where land ambulances are unable to access the scene or where transfer by land ambulance would be too slow or create more injury to the patient. DLRAA's primary response area is the 2,100 square miles of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland. It will serve in excess of 1.4 million people. Currently only able to operate in daylight hours due to the restrictive leasing costs of flying at night, DLRAA aims to become the first service in the UK to operate 24 hours per day. The average cost per mission is around £1000 and the annual basic running cost of the service is over £1.5 million.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 23 January 2011 Posted 23 January 2011 Makes sense to use the RAF. Maintaining medical helicopters would be an unnecessary expense during peacetime. I should imagine at any given time there must be plenty of RAF chopper sat idle around the country. Using them for medical purposes also doubles as training for pilots to, I imagine.
Zingari Posted 23 January 2011 Posted 23 January 2011 Makes sense to use the RAF. Maintaining medical helicopters would be an unnecessary expense during peacetime. I should imagine at any given time there must be plenty of RAF chopper sat idle around the country. Using them for medical purposes also doubles as training for pilots to, I imagine. yeah i'd love to be flown to hospital in a chopper with a pilot on L plates
Webbo Posted 23 January 2011 Posted 23 January 2011 yeah i'd love to be flown to hospital in a chopper with a pilot on L plates It'd be a good cure for constipation.
Zingari Posted 23 January 2011 Posted 23 January 2011 It'd be a good cure for constipation. real men use these
AoWW Posted 23 January 2011 Posted 23 January 2011 I was once taken to hospital in an ambulance (a normal one, sadly, I'd have liked a ride in a chopper) with a broken pelvis... fully conscious and coherent (albeit in rather a lot of pain) where the ambulance-men openly discussed whether I was alive or not because they couldn't find my pulse!!!
Haydos Posted 23 January 2011 Posted 23 January 2011 I was once taken to hospital in an ambulance (a normal one, sadly, I'd have liked a ride in a chopper) with a broken pelvis... fully conscious and coherent (albeit in rather a lot of pain) where the ambulance-men openly discussed whether I was alive or not because they couldn't find my pulse!!! Sounds horrible Hope it wasn't following a naughty night
Parafox Posted 25 January 2011 Posted 25 January 2011 Just seemed strange that there was 2 of them at the same time? Why do they use Military helo's as well, do the ambulance not have any? As previously mentioned it would not be efficient to use the Air Ambulance as this is required for relatively short haul transport to Hospital. A lot of ECMO patients come from some distance away. As well as this, the Air Ambulance doesnt have space or fittings to take a full "ICU" trolley which would include large mobile life support systems. I dont know why there were 2, that's not usually the case.
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