Mission Review

SCAA flew to an emergency involving a rider in the recent Cateran Trail cycling event. The cyclist was injured when he crashed his bike at an inaccessible part of the off-road track near Glenshee. Our helicopter air ambulance crew was able to land close to the injured man and place him on a stretcher. Then – supported by Tayside Mountain Rescue Team members - the patient was manoeuvred through a fence and on to the aircraft. He was then airlifted to the Major Trauma Centre in Dundee in just 15 minutes for advanced care.

SCAA flew to the far side of Arran recently to airlift an injured cyclist to mainland hospital care. Our air ambulance rendezvoused with a road ambulance at a recognised landing site on the island before the patient - who had sustained arm injuries when he came off his bicycle – was transferred to our helicopter and flown to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow in 20 minutes.

A young boy recently injured in a go-cart accident at a track near Portsoy was airlifted along with his dad to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in around 20 minutes – saving almost an hour on the equivalent road journey. SCAA paramedics ensured the youngster also had a SCAA teddy to accompany him on the flight and throughout his care.

SCAA attended two road traffic collisions involving motorcyclists on consecutive days recently – one near Fort William and the next near Ballater. SCAA airlifted a specialist consultant-led team to the scene of both, bringing accident and emergency department skills and care to the roadside as quickly as possible. SCAA then airlifted an injured motorcyclist to the nearest Major Trauma Centre on each occasion – the first to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and the second to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

SCAA airlifted an injured car passenger from the scene of a road traffic collision near Fraserburgh recently. SCAA worked alongside colleagues from Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Scottish Ambulance Service at the scene of the three-vehicle incident, before flying the patient to Major Trauma Centre care in Aberdeen in 16 minutes – a journey that would have taken an hour by road.

SCAA flew to the islands of Auskerry and Stronsay in Orkney on the same day recently, airlifting patients to mainland hospital care at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. A medical emergency took the crew to Auskerry and our helicopter air ambulance then returned to Orkney from ARI to complete the urgent transfer of the second patient - from the outlying island of Stronsay – to the mainland.

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