Rescue team helps walker with cut to forehead (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Rescue team helps walker with cut to forehead
3:14pm Thursday 30th August 2012 in News
MOUNTAIN rescue volunteers came to the aid of a woman who cut her head at Tarn Haws yesterday.
Fifteen members of the Coniston team were called out to assist the walker who was on the main track towards Glen Mary Bridge to view the Tom Ghyll waterfalls.
She had slipped and banged her head, resulting in a deep cut to her forehead, just before 1pm.
A spokesman said: "It is difficult to assess the seriousness of a head injury as the symptoms do not always manifest immediately.
"Fortunately the North West Air Ambulance was able to attend and paramedics were already on scene when the team arrived.
"Although we had the stretcher ready it was decided to assist the lady in walking to the ambulance where she would be assessed.
"She was well and able to do this comfortably.
"She was later taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. It only took one and a quarter hours to deal with this call out due to the close location and simple evacuation."
Comments(3)
blade stall
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11:05pm Fri 31 Aug 12
WilliamT
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8:18am Sun 2 Sep 12
What should have happened is that she should have straight away been escorted the few minutes back to the car, and then off to Kendal for some wound management- cost, not very much. What actually happened is that everyone stood around wringing their hands doing exactly the wrong things- they, like many doctors, have learned their medicine from too much watching of 'Casualty' where movement of any patient without immobilisation of the neck instantly causes quadriplegia. A couple of hours wasted waiting to call 20 odd people out to...walk her down to the car, then what seems to be a helicopter trip to Lancaster- either that or yet more people and a road ambulance were involved. There may well have been various scans, and she was probably discharged the same day. Cost £5-10,000. All the hospital services in Cumbria are in dire straits, which are going to become 'direr'.
blade stall says...
11:05pm Fri 31 Aug 12