Sheffield hospitals doctors prepare to take to the skies as part of new Yorkshire Air Ambulance Critical Care Team
Three doctors from Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have joined the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Critical Care team, which means a specialist pre-hospital doctor is on board the Yorkshire air ambulance 365 days a year.
Anaesthetic consultants Dr Stephen Rowe, Dr Tim Moll and Dr Neil Sambridge all based at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals have joined eight other consultants in emergency medicine and anaesthesia to form the new team.
Dr Tim Moll, Consultant anaesthetist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and member of the Yorkshire Critical Care team said: “The new critical care team ensures that a consultant trained in pre-hospital emergency medicine will be on board the air ambulance every day of the year. This means that life-saving procedures can be done on the scene of an incident, including critical care interventions and emergency anaesthesia.”
The doctors have been seconded to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and other host Trusts to support the service already provided by Yorkshire Air Ambulance paramedics and other frontline response teams.
The team will work on the helicopter 12 hours a day, every day of the year, with members spending one day per fortnight at the Helicopter base monitoring 999 calls. Any calls received with a critically ill patient will activate the helicopter and the team will fly out to treat and transfer the patient to hospital.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is one of three major trauma centres in Yorkshire and have also opened a brand new helipad right outside the A&E department which will mean that patients brought in by the new Yorkshire Air Ambulance critical care team will receive treatment within seconds of landing.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) have worked with commissioners to launch the new Yorkshire Critical Care Team. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance serves five million people across Yorkshire and has carried more than 6,600 people in its 15-year history.
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Photo: Yorkshire Air Ambulance Critical Care doctors including consultant anaesthetists from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Dr Neil Sambridge (top row first on the left), Dr Stephen Rowe (top row 3rd from left) and Dr Tim Moll (top row 4th from left)
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