Let me through! I'm a helicopter.
I enjoyed Pat Goodwin's article about the helicopter emergency medical services in London (Flying to the rescue, Features, March 16). But in a spirit of inquiry and not criticism, would she tell me why, in the case she described of a man who had fallen down basement steps where 'a paramedic team was present', the HEMS team had to clear an airway, intubate and set up an infusion. Surely the paramedic team should have already done all that as a bare minimum?
Bristol.
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