snoop1130 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 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/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-3-16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddyDaddy Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 While I applaud their efforts all over Thailand.......lack of training and professional expertise will result in mishaps such as this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huainnews Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dumbastheycome Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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