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Old 3rd Jan 2014, 09:44
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Surely the point we want to get across, assuming a common interest in promoting HEMS, is that other forms of transport would not have been possible and that the helicopter allowed the rapid provision of expert care.

I would be cautious about discussing or promoting scoop and run vs stabilise unless you were actually there and examined MS. Reports suggest a lucid period when transfer without intervention would have been ideal, but subsequent CT scans were reported as significant intracranial haematomata and in that situation elective anaesthesia on scene would have been indicated.

Sorry to go medical on a rotorheads thread, but scoop and run with an unconscious head injury is one of the few HEMS manoeuvres shown to be medically disadvantageous. We don't want an own goal
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