Kanchanaburi health office probes rescuers’ wrong evaluation of accident victim condition

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Kanchanaburi health office probes rescuers’ wrong evaluation of accident victim condition

 

 

A probe by Kanchanaburi health office found that rescue workers handling a road accident in Thong Pha Phum district wrongly assumed that the accident victim died at the scene, causing her to be left unhelped for about 10 minutes.

 

Kanchanaburi provincial health chief Dr Panas Sophonpong launched a probe into the case after a video clip of the accident went viral on the social media and drew heavy criticisms over the rescue workers’ handling of the accident.

 

Two persons, including a 19-year-old woman and a 6-year-old boy, were injured in the accident which occured on March 12. Rescue workers arriving at the scene checked the condition of the woman and assumed that she was dead. They covered her body with white cloth and moved on to rescue the boy.

 

Hospital staff later arrived and examined the woman and found that was still alive. Immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was conducted to revive her heart and sent her to hospital.

 

But she died upon arrival at the hospital, while the injured boy was in safe condition.

 

Netizens viewed that had rescue workers correctly evaluated the woman’s condition, she would have survived.

 

Full Story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/kanchanaburi-health-office-probes-rescuers-wrong-evaluation-accident-victim-condition/

 

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[PaddyDaddy]

While I applaud their efforts all over Thailand.......lack of training and professional expertise will result in mishaps such as this.  

[huainnews]

  It doesn't only happen in Thailand.

  I knew someone who was similarly was involved in a car accident, as he lay on the ground he remembered hearing one of the medics say 'we can forget about this one'.

  Fortunately another medic checked up, rushed him to hospital, where he recovered and enjoyed life for another twenty years!

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[Dumbastheycome]

10 hours ago, huainnews said:

  It doesn't only happen in Thailand.

  I knew someone who was similarly was involved in a car accident, as he lay on the ground he remembered hearing one of the medics say 'we can forget about this one'.

  Fortunately another medic checked up, rushed him to hospital, where he recovered and enjoyed life for another twenty years!

A man  I know  was involved  in an auto  accident involving  3  vehicles. This  was  in the  time   before   seat  belts  and saftey  features  so  he  was  literally   gutted  on  the  steering wheel column. Was  assessed dead  and  other survivors were  ambulanced  away first. But petrolfumes  caused concerns  about  fire  so  his  body  was  dragged  out  and   placed  on the cold grass   a  safe  distance  away. Contact  with  the  cold   grass  he was  placed  on was   enough apparently  to initiate his  system  and  he started moving  which  created some  slight  panic and renewed  call  for  an  ambulance.

He  survived  with   massive  scarring  to  is  abdomen  but  not   much else.

With  no detectable   heartbeat  or respiration  and  the  visual degree  of   body  injury he  had,  the number  of  other victims etc he never had any problem in accepting  his  luck  or the  error  of the  emergency  services and  was obviously greatful for the final  outcome.

Emergency  serces  in  Thailand  are a   business  enterprise primarily but  without  them many  more  would  unecessarily die. Why such focus  on this  incident? Why  not  a   much more  relevant  focus  on   drivers  who  do not   give  shit   about   ambulances and  rarely  allow  them  to  pass even with   lights  and sirens  blaring? Who  is   more  culpable  in    negligence  in causing  preventable  death?