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January 2010
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A volunteer emergency doctor
from
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS)
spent much of Saturday morning (30th
January 2010) tending to an injured patient at the scene of a road
traffic collision on the A17 at
Fulbeck
Heath, near Grantham,
Lincolnshire
Dr Mark Folman,
a General Practitioner based in Newark,
is a volunteer with
EMICS and was
called to the incident by the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) at
08.40 am to attend a two car collision. He was asked to assist with
treatment of one of the drivers, a 19 year old female, who had suffered
serious head injuries. Dr Folman’s specialist training for such trauma
enabled him to stabilise the female by anaesthetising her at the scene
to help prevent her injury getting worse. The patient was then
transferred by road ambulance to Lincoln
County
Hospital.
The driver of the second car received only minor injuries which were
treated by paramedics at the scene prior to transfer to
Lincoln
Hospital.
The incident occurred after a light covering of snow
had frozen on the road making driving conditions somewhat hazardous. As
a result of the incident the road remained closed for police
investigation.
Dr Folman praised the emergency services who were
also in attendance for their assistance in helping with the swift and
safe extrication of the patient from the vehicle so that he could give
the patient the necessary medical care prior to transfer.
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EMICS DOCTOR RECEIVES COMMENDATION
A BASICS doctor, Peter Gordon, who assisted paramedics in their race
against time to save a man trapped in his blazing lorry cab in September
last year, has received a commendation for bravery. Dr Gordon was one of
the team of 10 which attended the horrific crash on the A14 after a
lorry smashed into a heavy goods vehicle, sending it crashing into a van
and jack-knifing across the carriageway.
The first paramedics on
the scene, who this week received bravery awards, ran up and down a
queue of traffic asking drivers for fire extinguishers to put out the
flames which were engulfing the lorry driver who was screaming in
terror. One of the paramedics honoured, Ian Pratt, based at Corby, said:
"In the 19 years I have been in this job I have never seen anything like
it. The cab of one lorry was ablaze and so was the back of the other
lorry. When I first saw it, I was praying that we would be able to get
our guy out. We felt helpless because the patient was trapped and
burning and was still conscious. It was a horrible experience but it
turned out well. You don't think about the danger, you're just totally
focused on the job."
While Kettering paramedics Jackie Luck and
Andrea Clarke and other motorists desperately tried to free the driver,
Mark Gregory, an operational support manager, ran up and down the
carriageway, asking other lorry drivers for their fire extinguishers in
a bid to fight the blaze. Firefighters arrived soon after and managed to
free the man from his cab where he was treated for moderately severe
burns and both a fractured leg and an arm.
Dr Gordon said "We
were also very concerned about the smoke this man had inhaled and used
the Police helicopter to get him rapidly into Intensive Care, where he
was ventilated." The driver spent a week under sedation before making a
full recovery, along with the driver of the heavy goods vehicle who was
run over by his own vehicle and thrown to the side of the road. East
Midlands Ambulance Service presented the group with chief executive's
commendations in recognition of how staff risked their own lives to
treat the casualties. The other staff to receive the award were Jackie
Luck and Andrea Clarke, paramedics at Kettering station; Mark Gregory,
operational support manager; Tim Craddock, a community paramedic at
Kettering station; Marilyn Tuckley, an emergency care assistant at
Wellingborough station; Alan Burton, a technician at Kettering station;
Stuart Smith, an emergency care assistant at Kettering station and Keith
Rutherford, a paramedic at Kettering station.
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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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