I worked in tree surgery for 8yrs, now I work in timber milling, every one of us donates to the local air ambulance, we work so remotely that our best chance of surviving if something went wrong is them so it's sorta like an insurance policy 👊❤

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St thomas isn't a major trauma hospital. So the patient would need to go to kings or another mtc. This would be due to the bullseye on the windscreen of the bus - massive trauma. The helicopter team can put the patient to sleep and give blood to stabilise the patient prior to transport. It's an amazing service

It has a fan inside the tail which can direct air instead Means you don't have a massive blade of death to decapite you or a tree Pretty useful for an air ambulance I would think

It's literally parliament Square...... Probably the second most famous place in London

Never would have heard either, LOL

Lol.

It’s one of the London Air Ambulance Rapid Response Vehicles (RRV), which combined with the helicopters ensure a 24/7 coverage for the city, as no flights take place at night. They may also be used during the day when the helicopters are already engaged elsewhere. The cars carry the same physicians / advanced trauma team and equipment.

Advanced paramedics, same guys in the helicopter but are instead in a car

Should London just shut down because 1 guy was stupid enough to walk out in front of a big red bus?

Yes mate exactly that

I would assume it’s to alert that it’s a helimed chopper as opposed to a regular one as the guidelines for landing are different. Ie to land a personal chopper in the centre of London in a park like this would be near impossible.

And the two cyclists who pulled across the 'blue lighting' police car. Bring in number plates for cyclists. I comment as a cyclist !

may be in an immovable condition that needs specialist treatment

To deliver specialist advanced trauma doctors and paramedics to the scene as quickly as possible for potentially life-saving pre-hospital intervention that would otherwise not be available.

There's a hospital very close. But often the air ambulance is more to get a doctor and equipment to the site quickly. The helicopter is based at St Georges which is about 10 miles away - that hospital is specifically equipped to deal with major trauma and so will probably have more specialised doctors and if needed a better place to take them than a smaller local hospital.

Trauma hospitals are doe those patients with life threatening conditions. Missing limbs, breathing difficulties, lung collapse and many more. Normal hospitals can’t deal with the super bad conditions that the public may gain from accidents.

it also says 'London freemasons' lol.

Some of the fleet was purchased with funds donated by the London Freemasons. London Fire Brigade also have an aerial turntable vehicle purchased this way.

The London freemasons are very charitable and do really good things for the London emergency services

Uses the NOTAR system in short it has a little fan in the tail instead of a rotor, it's both quieter and safer for personel since the heli is always landing in public areas unlike normal helis, it's safer to not have the big spinning rotor on the back. Tho I'm sure there's other reasons why they use this heli too 🙂

Some helicopters have a system which has a fan inside the tail and they can rotate the hole at the end of the tail to direct the airflow instead of a tail rotor Safer to be around and looks really cool ( doubt that's one of the reasons though)

This happens more often than you’d think where a helicopter delivers an advanced trauma team including doctor(s), but the patient will be taken by ground ambulance. Sometimes the most important thing is advanced pre-hospital intervention i.e. stabilising the patient as much as possible at the scene (more so than a standard paramedic could do), and not just simply getting them to a hospital as quickly as possible. One of the nearest major trauma centres to Westminster would be St Mary’s Hospital which is around a 15-20 minute drive away on blue lights, likely faster than the time it would take to drive the patient back to the helicopter, safely on-board, and then off to the helipad.

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