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Recent EMICS activities and Press releases
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| May 2009 |
| Wasted
2009. EMICS are also involved in education. At the "Donut" Chesterfield,
a road traffic incident was re-created with involvement of the police,
fire, ambulance and EMICS doctors. A crowd of 200 watched - the aim - to
show the devastating consequences of driving dangerously and without
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| March
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| Charity Fund raising Event |
The
Charity
Evening held recently to support the
work of the
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS)
at the
Cuisine of India Restaurant
on
Kelmarsh Avenue
in Wigston, Leicestershire
succeeded in
raising more than £1000. All of the
profits from the evening have been donated to the charity thanks to the
generosity of the proprietor Mr Syed Rahman. As well as the profits from
the event a number of generous donations have taken the total to £1,020.
Mr Rahman said of the evening, “I realise how very
hard it is to raise funds for charities in these difficult times and I
am so glad that the evening has been successful. I only realised this
evening how valuable is the work of these volunteer doctors in helping
to save the lives of the victims of serious road and other accidents. It
was so good to see two of these patients here with us this evening. This
event is part of our plan to raise over £100,000 for charity over the
next 7 years”.
The two ex patients were, Miss Sarah Lee who was
helped at the scene of a serious road accident by Dr Nick Foster in July
2004, and Mr Gary Boothroyd who was involved, as a cyclist in a
collision with a motor vehicle in August 1998 and helped by Dr Nigel
Callow. Both patients suffered such serious injuries that they needed
specialist assistance by a doctor before they could be transferred to
hospital.
Part of the success of the evening came from a grand
raffle for which prizes had been donated by a large number of businesses
in Leicester, Oakham and Wigston.
The evening was attended by 75
friends and family members of the organiser Mr Garth Lee and Drs Tim
Gray, Leon Roberts, Peter Gordan and Simeon Rayner, four of the doctors
who are volunteers with EMICS.
Dr Gray, the
chairman of EMICS acknowledged the
hospitality of the restaurant and the support of the guests by saying
“Thank you so much for turning out on a Monday evening in the middle of
a recession to support a charity that not many have heard of let alone
know what it does, your support is greatly appreciated it will make a
difference to the work that we do. Thank you”.
A
fund
raising campaign was launched in 2008
year to generate the £75,000 necessary to equip 5 new doctors who had
been recruited to help expand the service across the region. For further
information about EMICS please go to www.emics.org.uk
Photographs of
the evening can be viewed on the Cuisine of India website
www.cuisineofindia.co.uk/album/300309/album/index/html and high
definition images can be
obtained from Terry Emmony by calling 0116247 8776 or
mobile 07714671234.
For more information, click here
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| February 2009 |
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A volunteer emergency doctor
from
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS)
was on duty for much of Friday evening (20th
February 2009) at the scene of a road traffic collision which occurred
at 17.40 hours on the A15 at Silk Willoughby, near Sleaford.
Dr Mark Folman,
a General Practitioner with a practice in Newark, arrived at the scene
at which there was already a crew from East Midlands Ambulance Service
(EMAS) present as well as a medical response team from LIVES, the
Lincolnshire voluntary medics scheme. A Fire and Rescue crew was also in
attendance as well as the police who had closed off the road to allow
the medics un-distracted attention to the patient.
The incident
involved two vehicles at a high speed junction in which one of the cars
rolled over. A number of people from the cars were involved in the
incident and most were medically discharged at the scene. However one 30
year old patient was found, whilst being extricated from the vehicle to
have significant head injuries so Dr Folman anaesthetised him at the
scene in order to control his breathing and protect his brain until he
could receive more specialist treatment in hospital. Emergency
anaesthesia is normally done in a hospital environment but a number of
the EMICS doctors, including Dr Folman are trained to do this procedure
at the scene of incidents such as this. Dr Folman, together with LIVES
doctor Dr Steele, accompanied the patient on the one hour journey by
road ambulance to Queens Medical Centre at
Nottingham.
The patient’s condition was said to be stable at the time Dr Folman left
the hospital at 10 pm to be taken back to his car at the scene by an
EMAS crew.
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A volunteer emergency doctor
from
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS)
was one of the first on the scene of an incident today (19th
February 2009) when a micro-light pilot crashed into a hedge shortly
after take off in the Ilkeston area of Derbyshire.
Dr Andy Davies,
who is a General Practitioner with a practice in Ilkeston and an EMICS
volunteer, was called by the East Midlands Ambulance Service at around
midday to attend to the pilot at the scene of the incident. He arrived
within 12 minutes whereupon he began to calm and stabilise the patient.
The patient, a 60 year old male, was diagnosed to have a broken lower
leg which was splinted before he was transported to Derby Royal
Infirmary by road ambulance. The incident occurred near Park Lane Farm
on Park Hall Lane,
between West Hallam and Mapperley
For more information, click here
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Two Charities emergency doctors work in tandem
Doctors from two local charities
–
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS)
and the
Derbyshire,
Leicester,
Rutland
Air Ambulance (DLRAA) were kept busy
earlier this week (Tuesday 10th
February 2009) following a series of accidents.
Dr Pam Hardy, a
volunteer EMICS doctor in North Derbyshire, who also works on the Air
Ambulance, came across a road traffic accident on the M1 (J29-28) at
approximately 06.40 on her way the work on the helicopter service.
Despite significant damage to a car that had spun out of control on the
wet and icy roads, the single occupant was able to be treated and
discharged from scene.
Once at work the air ambulance
was tasked to another road accident related to the icy conditions, this
time in Barnsdale,
Rutland,
where
Dr Tim Gray,
another volunteer EMICS doctor in Oakham, was already on scene assisting
crews in treating the driver trapped in his van. The two doctors worked
with land crews, air ambulance paramedics and
Leicestershire Fire & Rescue Service to
free him from the wreckage and he was flown to
Leicester
Royal Infirmary with suspected neck and
chest injuries.
On the way
back to base, at
East
Midlands
Airport,
the air ambulance was tasked to an industrial incident in Loughborough,
where a man had been trapped by a steel girder and sustained severe leg
injuries. This time
Dr Nick Foster,
another volunteer EMICS doctor from Kegworth, was on scene along with
ambulance and fire crews. The man had been freed from the situation by
his work colleagues prior to treatment. Thanks to the skills of the air
ambulance pilot Captain Shaun Tinkler-Rose, the air ambulance team was
able to land close to the incident in the industrial estate and the man
was flown to Queen’s Medical Centre,
in Nottingham.
Doctors from the two organisations (EMICS & DLRAA) –
both of which are funded entirely by charitable donations – work closely
together in terms of training and education, and some doctors work for
both charities – having their own cars fully equipped with medical kit
as well as blue lights and sirens to respond to emergencies at any time
of day or night, and also do shifts on the air ambulance.
Dr Pam Hardy said: “although we meet on regular
occasions at organised events and training sessions, it is unusual to
meet quite so often on operational jobs and great to be able to work
together in this way putting what we train for into practice.”
Dr Nick Foster also attended two further road traffic
collisions on the evening of the same day.
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| January 2009 |
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Medical volunteers assist the injured at scene of
glider crash
Two volunteers from the East Midlands Immediate
Care Scheme (EMICS) were again on duty on Sunday afternoon (18th January
2009) to assist an injured passenger and his pilot when their glider
aircraft crash landed on Abney Moor in the Derbyshire Peak district.
The EMICS volunteers were Dr Pam
Hardy, whose full time post is as Consultant in Emergency Care and Mr
Andy Lee who works fulltime for Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service and
is an EMICS volunteer.
Despite the remote location to
the two volunteers were on the scene within 15 minutes as the first
medical response team. The Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service were first
on the scene. The rapid response from all the emergency teams and the
speedy medical assessment from the EMICS team enabled the injured
patient to be immobilised at the scene and to be transported, by
ambulance, to Chesterfield Royal Hospital within just 40 minutes of the
crash call at 16.15 pm. The pilot was discharged without serious injury
by ambulance staff at the scene.
The scene of the incident was exposed moorland, in
biting wind and with darkness quickly approaching.
All doctors in EMICS are volunteers who attend emergency incidents at
the request of and in support of staff from the East Midlands Ambulance
Service. A fund raising campaign was launched earlier last year to
generate the £75,000 necessary to equip 5 new doctors who have been
recruited to help expand the service across the region. Anyone wishing
to support the work of EMICS can obtain further information from the
office by telephoning 01572 759680 or by visiting
www.emics.org.uk
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EMICS has also been involved in the following National Major
Incidents:
The Kegworth Air crash 1989 Dr Nicholas Foster, Dr Tim Gray

The July 2005 London bombing Dr Peter Holden, Dr Nicholas
Foster


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