Wheaton Aston is situated West of the M6....
...and just North of the Gailey-Weston stretch of the A5.
Shortly after 0900 elements of the Trust arrived at St Mary's School and commenced...
...setting up the Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) that would act as Exercise HQ.
Trust staff were briefed on the exercise scenarios...
..followed by CFR scheme members
Organised into 4 groups for the day, CFRs were given the opportunity to...
... get in some driving practice in Trust cars before the start of the scenario phase.
The CFRs then had an opportunity...
...for a group photo with their own responder car.
Trust trainee technicians provided the ambulance crews.
At the local garage a mechanic had been doing some welding on a car when there was an explosion. He collapsed in the inspection pit suffering from burns to the face and chest.
...CFRs were quickly on scene to commence treatment...
...followed by a CPO.
With the help of the crew, the patient was boarded....
...before being safely removed to hospital.
A visitor to the local canal-side pub suffered a cardiac arrest upon seeing the size of the lunch portions!
CFRs arrived shortly after a call from the pub and commenced CPR...
...whilst waiting for backup from a CPO who was equipped with the...
...LUCAS ACDC device, a medical gases driven device able to deliver and sustain...
...gold standard CPR.
The LUCAS remained attached to the patient, and functioning, for the journey to hospital.
Down on the farm, a farm hand had been crushed by a falling object. By the time the alarm was raised he had been trapped for over 20 minutes.
Crushed with a chest injury...
...the dilemma is whether to remove the object.
The patient was first stabilised before the arrival of additional hands permitted the safe removal of the object....
...and the evacuation of the casualty.
Each scenario took around an hour to complete. CFR groups rotated round each scenario, at the end of which they returned to the school for a debrief.
Cardiac Arrest debrief
Burns incident debrief.
After the debrief there is an opportunity to take a break courtesy of the lads from logistic support.
Early in the afternoon a call was received that two microlights had collided in mid-air with up to 5 casualties from the incident, that included people injured on the ground. It was believed that the microlight pilots had crashed into a pond (nothing like a good incident to end on, and of course this is a weekly occurrence in Wheaton Aston!!!).
A CFR team were first on scene to the remote area. They quickly confirmed the incident and called for assistance.
One of the pilots was stuck up a tree.
Additional resources took time to arrive...
...but the slightly soggy BRONZE officer was quick to triage the casualties...
...for treatment and evacuation...
...to the waiting ambulances.