First of all you have to excuse my bad english, i am norwegian, and work at stavanger university hospital.
I was thinking about what i have done this year, calls i respond to and 2 of them turn out to be unique in the world and i want to share it.
The first call happen this summer, we responded to a care ho has run out in the sea. Our one helicopter was in another conty so i made the call to send the rescue helicopter and ask another conty if they would send there helicopter to. I had a diver on scene pretty fast, but it was to much current in the water to take out the glass of the car. In the car was 2 female persons the age was 45 and 16. We got a mobilecrane on scene and manage to get the car out of water 50 minutts after it happen. we got the patients out of the car and startet our own algorithms of cpr. Both had of course asystole at the start, but after a short while we got ROSC on both patients. We got the big rescu helicopter to land in the town senter by the scene and they did, it was a thight fit but some how they did it. We made the decision to start therapeutic cooling of the 16 year old patient becouse she was the most stabile. The mother was going in and out of coding, so we did cpr one hour in the helicopter to the hospital. The mother died later that night becouse she had som other injuries and did not survive the opration. But 3. monthes later the 16 years old girl made a visit to the station, she recover from the accident with no injuries of any kind.... and thats after 50 minutts under water..
2. second call was 3 moths later. And the same kind of accident, car in the water with 3 children. 3. years old a 6. year old and a 17 year old patient. From the call was made to all children was out of the water it only took 20.minutts the car was 11.meters down in the sea. The diver was on the scene 7 minutts after the call and worked as fast as human possible. All the children had asystoli when they came out of water after 15-20 minutts. I had 4 teams on sight working on them. And on the scene 2 children got ROSC and the last child got ROSC on the way to the hospital in the ambulance. We desided to do something that have never been done before an started therapeutic cooling of them. After 3 days the first child leave the hospital and after a month all was out of the hospital and had no injuries from the accident. therapeutic cooling has never been done on children this young after drowning. They did make a party to thank us
Our algorithms is unique and we have made much research on cpr. statistically we have the greatest survivel rate of cardiac arrest and is the safest place in the world to get cardiac arrest. We do not start ALS before we have 2 units on site becouse you need more than one team to do ALS the right way.
Now we have great results of our new research on witness cardiac arrest.
We do not use much time on the scene, we just contect the autopuls/herkulus cpr unit and tranport direct to the PCI lab on the hospital where the doctor cleens out the clots in the heart and we start the heart after this. This is just a projekt and the patient has to meet som criteria to get this treatment, all other patients got the standar treatment.
I wanted to share this becouse i am proud to be a part of the few ho can say what i do save lifes, to be a part of our brotherhod ho has the commen goal to make a difference in the world.
I was thinking about what i have done this year, calls i respond to and 2 of them turn out to be unique in the world and i want to share it.
The first call happen this summer, we responded to a care ho has run out in the sea. Our one helicopter was in another conty so i made the call to send the rescue helicopter and ask another conty if they would send there helicopter to. I had a diver on scene pretty fast, but it was to much current in the water to take out the glass of the car. In the car was 2 female persons the age was 45 and 16. We got a mobilecrane on scene and manage to get the car out of water 50 minutts after it happen. we got the patients out of the car and startet our own algorithms of cpr. Both had of course asystole at the start, but after a short while we got ROSC on both patients. We got the big rescu helicopter to land in the town senter by the scene and they did, it was a thight fit but some how they did it. We made the decision to start therapeutic cooling of the 16 year old patient becouse she was the most stabile. The mother was going in and out of coding, so we did cpr one hour in the helicopter to the hospital. The mother died later that night becouse she had som other injuries and did not survive the opration. But 3. monthes later the 16 years old girl made a visit to the station, she recover from the accident with no injuries of any kind.... and thats after 50 minutts under water..
2. second call was 3 moths later. And the same kind of accident, car in the water with 3 children. 3. years old a 6. year old and a 17 year old patient. From the call was made to all children was out of the water it only took 20.minutts the car was 11.meters down in the sea. The diver was on the scene 7 minutts after the call and worked as fast as human possible. All the children had asystoli when they came out of water after 15-20 minutts. I had 4 teams on sight working on them. And on the scene 2 children got ROSC and the last child got ROSC on the way to the hospital in the ambulance. We desided to do something that have never been done before an started therapeutic cooling of them. After 3 days the first child leave the hospital and after a month all was out of the hospital and had no injuries from the accident. therapeutic cooling has never been done on children this young after drowning. They did make a party to thank us
Our algorithms is unique and we have made much research on cpr. statistically we have the greatest survivel rate of cardiac arrest and is the safest place in the world to get cardiac arrest. We do not start ALS before we have 2 units on site becouse you need more than one team to do ALS the right way.
Now we have great results of our new research on witness cardiac arrest.
We do not use much time on the scene, we just contect the autopuls/herkulus cpr unit and tranport direct to the PCI lab on the hospital where the doctor cleens out the clots in the heart and we start the heart after this. This is just a projekt and the patient has to meet som criteria to get this treatment, all other patients got the standar treatment.
I wanted to share this becouse i am proud to be a part of the few ho can say what i do save lifes, to be a part of our brotherhod ho has the commen goal to make a difference in the world.
