Mission Review

For over ten years now, Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance has been online and ready to respond from our bases in Perth and Aberdeen. Here are just a few of the call outs we've responded to recently.

SCAA was quickly on scene at a road traffic collision near Banff recently, joining colleagues from Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Ambulance Service at the scene. Our helicopter air ambulance landed in a nearby field and airlifted a man injured in the accident to the Major Trauma Centre in Aberdeen in under 20 minutes - a journey that would have taken over an hour by road.

A boy who sustained head injuries in a fall on Ben Lawers was airlifted to Major Trauma Centre care in Dundee recently. SCAA landed at the mountain car park where they rendezvoused with land ambulance crew colleagues who had brought the youngster off the hillside. The injured boy - accompanied by his father - was then airlifted to hospital with a SCAA teddy providing extra comfort.

SCAA's Helimed 79 air ambulance recently flew to Orkney on three consecutive days to airlift patients requiring urgent mainland hospital care. Each of the patients were brought from #Kirkwall to Aberdeen in under an hour.

SCAA's Helimed 76 air ambulance was on a training flight to Barra when a patient required an urgent air transfer from Mull to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. Diverting to Glenforsa airstrip on the island, SCAA airlifted the woman quickly and comfortably to mainland hospital care.

SCAA was one of six emergency response teams recently sent to a serious road traffic collision on the A9 near Bruar. Working alongside colleagues from Helimed 2, an Emergency Medical Retrieval Service team, Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Ambulance Service, SCAA paramedics tended the injured in the two-vehicle collision before airlifted one of the drivers to the Major Trauma Centre at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

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