Air ambulance services from the Battersea helicopters heliport

Air ambulance services like those that fly from the Battersea helicopters heliport are an ideal solution when ambulances cannot reach people that are far from an accessible road system. Air ambulances allow these people to be rescued when they normally wouldn’t be able to. When you suffer an injury in an inaccessible place, air ambulance helicopters like those from the Battersea helicopters heliport, are on hand to find you and help you to the safety of a hospital.

The air ambulance service are a wonderful service that help the ambulance services in areas that are not accessible by road and so not available to traditional ambulances. These situations usually arise when people are in areas such as hillsides, mountainous areas, caves, un-adopted fields or marshlands, or simply far from an ambulance centre and so more quickly accessible by helicopter. This is a perfect example of where these specialist ambulance services are essential to ensuring a fully ranging ambulance service in the UK.

An example

As an example of when an air ambulance may be needed, we can take the example of some cavers who have suffered injury in a rock falling accident. There are two injured people with broken legs who cannot leave the scene of the injury due to their lack of mobility.

In normal circumstances, an ambulance would be deployed to the scene. This ambulance would then travel as near to the area as possible via the road system. This would perhaps get them to within 100 yards of the cave system, meaning that with the help of the uninjured parties, they could transport the injured people from the mouth of the cave to the roadside and into the ambulance.

However, in the case in our example, the cave system is in an inaccessible (by road) area of the country which the cavers have hiked to prior to beginning their caving expedition. Therefore, due to the nature of their injuries, the injured parties could not follow the same route back; this results in the need for an air ambulance to be called to the scene.

Easy landing

The air ambulance team will fly right to the scene and land in an area of open land such as a field or flat hilltop. If this isn’t possible then the helicopter can hover and air winch injured people into the helicopter, but this is not an ideal situation and is best avoided.

Once both injured parties are in the helicopter safely, they will be looked over by an onboard medical practitioner, as a preliminary assessment to check that they don’t have any injuries that are in immediate need of attention. If they are ok then they will be kept warm and stable until they reach their destination and so can be treated properly in a hospital environment by the correct practitioners.

On arriving at the hospital they will be safely removed from the helicopter and transported to the applicable section of the hospital for treatment by the applicable surgeons and doctors.