Mission Review

Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance operates two helicopter air ambulances - Helimed 76 based in Perth and Helimed 79 based in Aberdeen. Tasked through Scotland's 999 emergency response network, here are just some of the call outs we've responded to recently.

The speed of our air ambulances recently proved vital when SCAA's Helimed 79 was called to airlift a diver suffering from the bends to specialist treatment in Aberdeen, following an incident in Eyemouth. SCAA rendezvoused with a land ambulance at East Fortune Airfield as the race to get the sick diver to the hyperbaric chamber got underway. Helimed 79, with a doctor-led team on board, then took just 40 minutes to have the patient safely in hospital care at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

A SCAA teddy was recently called into action to help comfort an infant who required an urgent transfer from Rothesay to advanced care at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. The flight to Bute was one of two made to Scotland's islands by SCAA that day, having previously flown a patient who required urgent medical care from Coll to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.

SCAA was recently able to land on the fairway at Turriff Golf Course to help a man who had suffered a cardiac arrest while playing golf. SCAA, which deployed with the specialist EMRS (Emergency Medical Retrieval Service) team, landed right next to the patient and worked with golf club responders before airlifting him to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary - just 10 minutes away by air.

A woman who recently suffered a leg injury at home in Aberfeldy was quickly in hospital care thanks to SCAA's Helimed 76. Our air ambulance landed on the town playing fields and a kind passer-by drove SCAA's paramedics to the patient. The injured woman was then airlifted to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

SCAA was recently part of a multi-service emergency response when a light aircraft crash landed shortly after take-off in Moray. Paramedics worked with colleagues from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the Scottish Ambulance Service, Police Scotland and an EMRS Team before airlifting the pilot, suffering leg injuries, to the Major Trauma Centre in Aberdeen.

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