For the first time ever in the UK, London’s Air Ambulance is bringing ECMO to the streets of London, offering hope to patients in cardiac arrest.
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Together with Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), Barts Health and the University of Aberdeen, London’s Air Ambulance Charity is looking into using artificial intelligence (AI) insights to improve pre-hospital care.
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Some of our medics recently joined forces with HEMS operators from the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation and Wales’ Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service to share knowledge and advance patient care. Procedures and critical care training around premature babies, victims of stabbing and hearts that have stopped beating were just some of the topics included on the agenda.
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Patient recruitment to the SWIFT (Study of Whole blood In Frontline Trauma) trial, led by NHS Blood and Transplant, has closed three months ahead of schedule due to the success of the recruitment phase.
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Today, on 1 October 2024, London’s Air Ambulance Charity celebrated the arrival of its two new helicopters alongside HRH The Prince of Wales and ex-England Captain David Beckham.
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Throughout 2023, the Physician Response Unit (PRU) treated 3,872 patients in North East London: bringing the emergency department to the patient. The PRU is a pioneering Community Emergency Medicine service which aims to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred emergency care, often in the patient’s own home.
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In 2023, London’s Air Ambulance’s advanced trauma team – which operates 24/7, 365 days a year – attended to 2,007 patients. This is a record number of patients, making the year 2023 the busiest ever year since the service began in 1989.
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With support from the charity’s funding partner Marshall Leasing and long-term supporters London Freemasons, London’s Air Ambulance Charity has introduced six new Volvo XC90s into its rapid response vehicle fleet.