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Many of our patients never know about our interventions, because they're quite rightly concentrating on their own recovery. Those that do find out - or we find them - become the best advocates we have, and we're delighted to keep in touch with their progress.
CASE HISTORY: Jamie Hole was an 18 year old champion surfer and gymnast who crashed his car into a tree in the New Forest in January 2008. He had severe head injuries. A BASICS Hampshire doctor was able to get there at the same time as the ambulance service. The route back to Southampton General was blocked by another accident: the doctor was able to anaesthetise and intubate. If Jamie had been left without this treatment, he would have died before he reached hospital; even if the road had not been blocked, his brain without anaesthesia would have continued to swell and damage itself, leaving him more incapacitated. In 2008 he recovered extremely well and has now signed up to the RAF which he joins this year.
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CASE HISTORY: Chris Stewart was a ten year old boy in a junior car race near Alton, who crashed into a barrier and had an extraordinary injury from which few people have ever recovered: internal decapitation. A BASICS doctor was there after Chris had been lifted from the car and, besides anaesthetising and placing him on a breathing machine, the doctor was able to dictate that Chris should go immediately to the neurological team at Southampton General Hospital who were best able to deal with his injuries, rather than the local hospital where a delay in transfer could have been fatal. This was not a call the paramedics could make.
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