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If you're critically ill or seriously injured, | 0:00:03 | 0:00:06 | |
seconds count. And in Britain's biggest county, | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
you can be a long way from help. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
-'Where's the patient?' -'She's stuck under the car!' | 0:00:11 | 0:00:13 | |
The Yorkshire Air Ambulance flies at 150mph | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
and thanks to its speed, hundreds of patients are alive today, | 0:00:17 | 0:00:21 | |
saved by a highly-skilled team of doctors and paramedics. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
Stand clear, everybody! Keep going, mate. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
It covers some of the UK's most rugged landscapes, | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
turning roadsides into operating theatres. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
I'm giving an emergency anaesthetic. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
And town centres into heli-pads. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
-Still good on the left? -Just behind you, Tim. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
And every day, the Heli-Med teams' skill, speed and courage is saving lives. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:47 | |
Today on Helicopter Heroes: | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
a runner is fighting for his life after a night stranded on the freezing fells. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:04 | |
He's spent all night on the moors with a broken leg. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
A bizarre crash leaves a biker badly injured. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
Once I got off the floor, I saw him under the car. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
A golfer is feeling below par after a painful slip on the green. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:18 | |
Walked out of the bunker. Next thing, right leg disappeared underneath. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:23 | |
It's easy to forget that some of Britain's most beautiful places | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
are also some of its most dangerous, | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
especially if you're caught out by the weather. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
Here in the hills, the temperature drops by one degree | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
for every 300 feet you climb, | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
making even a spring evening lethally chilly. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
RADIO PIPS | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
'It's seven o'clock. Police are appealing for help after a man went missing from his home | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
'near Ramsbottom. 65-year-old Steven Iggulden was last seen yesterday afternoon. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:02 | |
'Police and mountain rescuers have been involved in the search. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
'His family say they're extremely worried.' | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
1,500 feet up in the Pennines, the temperature plunged to minus two last night. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:13 | |
But the Rossendale and Pendle mountain rescue team | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
is about to make an extraordinary discovery. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
We're going to a patient who's fallen quite a long way. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
We think he's got a broken leg. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
We don't think there's a crew at the moment on scene, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
so we may well be first there. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
Pilot Steve Cobb must find a landing site on the hills above the remote Naden reservoir. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:38 | |
It's not going to be easy. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
-Which way's the wind blowing? -It's behind us. -Right. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
What about on top of the... See where there's people in the red? | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
There is a path on the far side that goes down. It's a bit of a trek but we can get down. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:54 | |
I'll get round the back of these windmills. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
Mountain rescue have been searching for the missing fell runner. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
It's a familiar accident. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
But paramedic Graham Pemberton is about to find out that this is no ordinary case. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:07 | |
Hello, mate. How you doing? | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
This is Anthony. I'll give you the details. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
-Anthony's been here overnight. -I just heard. -65-year-old. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
He's conscious and breathing. He's quite confused. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
Right. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
Dressed in only a vest and shorts, | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
their patient has survived 23 hours in sub-zero temperatures | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
with a broken leg and a serious head wound. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
We were searching from nine last night till two this morning. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
We came back at first light this morning. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
A couple of bikers helped us in the search and one of them found him. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:42 | |
The paramedics are down with him at the moment. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
They're assessing how he is. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
-Anthony? -Yes? -How are you doing down there, mate? | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
ANTHONY'S REPLIES INDISTINCT | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
Yeah? I don't know. How have you ended up down here? | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
Anthony Iggulden, Steve to his friends, is a keen fell runner, | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
competing in mountain marathons over rough terrain. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
His Alzheimer's has done little to reduce his stamina | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
or his enthusiasm. But last night he failed to come home. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
Keep your arms down by your side, Anthony. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
Not much longer and we'll get you wrapped up nice and warm, mate. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
I've done motorbike events over these moors. I know it quite well. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
I looked in the bits the helicopter might not be able to spot. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
Little overhangs, some of the valleys that are tucked away. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
To be honest, it was touch and go whether I bothered coming this far out. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
We were just doing a final check on this side of the valley | 0:04:31 | 0:04:36 | |
with their being some crags up there. Looked through the overhang | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
and thought I'd go and have a check. As I came over the crest, | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
although you don't expect to find anything, | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
I had one of those moments where I thought, "That's the man." | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
On move again. Ready, steady, move. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
We've had a lot of witnesses come forward, people in one area, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
and we concentrated our efforts on that area. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
From what I understand, the gentleman who located him, where he was last seen, | 0:04:59 | 0:05:04 | |
his local knowledge is better than what we know about the area up here. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:09 | |
Thankfully, he's gone and found him. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
Ready, steady, move. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
His rescuers now know why. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
But their patient's survival is in real doubt. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:20 | |
He may need an RAF helicopter to winch him out. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
He's spent all night out on the moors | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
with a broken leg, scalp injury. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
And I think he might have damaged his other leg as well. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:35 | |
He's obviously suffering quite a lot of exposure. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
The RAF are being...a bit non-committal | 0:05:37 | 0:05:43 | |
about whether they can get in to us. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
So we'll have to use mountain rescue to get him up the hill to our helicopter. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
It's feared he's fallen up to 50ft down the cliff face. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
He's confused, and that could be a symptom of a serious head injury. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
But hypothermia is the most imminent threat to his life. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
Anthony, is it hurting at all anywhere now, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
now we've dragged you round? | 0:06:02 | 0:06:03 | |
He has been well wrapped up, but desperately needs hospital treatment. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:08 | |
But first his rescuers need to work out how to carry him up the sheer cliff face. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
It may take time that he cannot afford. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
If you ride a bike, all you have to protect you in an accident | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
is your helmet, your boots and your leathers. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
And what you hit is entirely down to chance. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
The hill above the Yorkshire market town of Otley | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
is called The Chevin. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:40 | |
And its 1,000-foot summit, overlooking Wharfedale, | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
is aptly named Surprise View. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
On a clear day, it's a popular destination, | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
attracting hundreds of bikers and day-trippers. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
We can land this side. He can get through that gate. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
'5-8 over. Seeing the final approach. Over.' | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
The rider of this bike came out to enjoy the sights of Wharfedale. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
But the only view in front of him is the underside of a Ford Fiesta. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:08 | |
-Hello, Stuart. -He has lost consciousness. -OK. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:12 | |
-He's fully with us. -Lovely. -His shoulder is his priority. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:17 | |
OK. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:18 | |
Two bikes were involved in the crash. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
But the other rider was luckier than Stuart. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
The car pulled across the road to turn into this car park. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:28 | |
The first rider bumped into him. Then obviously I did as well. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:34 | |
Once I got off the floor, I saw him under the car. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
You keep still for us. You're just going to feel the helmet ease over your ears. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:42 | |
Try and keep your head still for me. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
Just tilt it over his nose. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
-Oh! -Sorry, boss. Just pull it from the bottom. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
That's it. There you go. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
As well as some broken bones, Stuart has crush injuries. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:57 | |
What I'd like to do now, boss, is stick a little needle in your arm. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
Can you talk to me when you're raising, so I'm ready? Let me know. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
-We're ready to raise more if you want. -Not yet. I need to listen to his chest before we go. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:10 | |
Sammy is worried her patient's condition could deteriorate | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
if the car is suddenly lifted. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
I'd like to have a needle in, in case he drops his blood pressure, when we do that. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:21 | |
It could lead to uncontrolled internal bleeding. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
His injuries are pretty serious. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:28 | |
Crush injuries are always a worry, | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
so we want to get him to hospital as quickly as possible. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:35 | |
He is able to breathe. It's just when you release him, with his blood pressure, | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
I need to make sure I've got an option to give him something. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:42 | |
All right? Two seconds. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
We've got these airbags that we put air into | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
and it slowly pushes the car up. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:51 | |
But it makes the car a bit unstable when we do that. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
so we'll have to chock it. We're on the call of the paramedics as well | 0:08:53 | 0:08:58 | |
because he's been trapped for a bit of time | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
and that causes crush injuries which causes more complications. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
Sammy makes sure everything is in place before they move him. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
Sammy knows releasing the weight of the car could harm her patient. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:12 | |
She also knows it's something that has to be done - now. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
When it comes to dangerous sports, I wouldn't put golf near the top of the list! | 0:09:24 | 0:09:29 | |
But you'd be surprised how often the Heli-Med team has to touch down on the fairway. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:34 | |
They say golf is one of those games that's deceptively simple | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
yet endlessly complicated. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
But today, a bit of overenthusiastic celebrating of a great shot | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
has left one golfer with a painful injury. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
He played out the bunker. His ball's on the green. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
He just walked onto the bank, literally walked a yard, | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
and his legs went from under him. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
There's a golf cart there. There is a crew on scene. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
Is it slightly to the right? | 0:10:04 | 0:10:05 | |
There's three in the same vicinity. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
I'm not 100% sure if that grid's 100% accurate. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
This part of Yorkshire is a bit of a golfing hot-spot. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
Finding the right hole on the right course is going to be tricky. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
-There's quite a few close together. -There's three. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
I think that's it. I've played that. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
Paramedic James Vine is a golfer himself, | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
clearly wishing he was playing a round today. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
..Finish that putt off for him, Chris? | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
It looks like it breaks left to right. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:36 | |
It'd probably go a good foot... | 0:10:36 | 0:10:38 | |
Why don't we just go over and move the balls a bit? | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
He's slipped and it's gone underneath him. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
-He's getting a bit numb, but he thinks it's from the position he's in. -Right. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
Rather than anything else. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
Keep going on that, mate. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
He's golfing and he's slipped on the bank. His leg's gone underneath him. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:55 | |
It looks like he's dislocated his ankle. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
Golf's a game that's built around team work and camaraderie. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
Simon Darby's team-mate, Steve, is clearly concerned. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
But not necessarily about Simon's injured leg. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
He's conceded my putt before he slipped | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
so that's not bad going, is it? | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
I got a result out of it. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:15 | |
Trouble is, he was carrying me round the golf course! | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
I don't know what I'm going to do for the next 12 holes! | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
After what Simon has described as one of his best-ever bunker shots, | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
he lost concentration, fell over and has a serious leg injury. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:32 | |
With a deformity like this, it's crucial blood can still flow to the foot. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:38 | |
The best way to sort that is also the most painful way. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
Keep going. Big deep breaths! | 0:11:43 | 0:11:47 | |
They need to straighten and splint his leg. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
Keep going! Keep going! | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
Has it gone back in? | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
That looks better than it did. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
Golf courses can clearly be dangerous places. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
And even when the paramedics are with you, | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
there are still hazards to watch out for. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
Watch this golf bag here! | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
Just keep going. Watch it! | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
-I've got spikes on! -I think you have. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
Haven't you? | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
Looks like he's got a potential fracture dislocation of his ankle. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:22 | |
The ankle's certainly dislocated. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
He's got a good pulse at the moment, | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
so now we've aligned the fracture site, | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
we'll get him down to LGI | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
and let the orthopaedic surgeons have a look. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
Yes. 52 years. Isolated right ankle. It looks like it's dislocated. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:41 | |
I've had a few jobs on golf courses. All of them have been a pain. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
This one's very good cos they don't mind you driving | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
but a lot of them don't want you driving near the greens cos it's such an expensive thing. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:50 | |
But people get ill on the golf courses. They have heart attacks or falls in the bunkers, | 0:12:50 | 0:12:55 | |
-as this gentleman's done. -Just played a really good bunker shot, | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
and just as I was feeling happy, | 0:12:59 | 0:13:00 | |
I walked out the bunker and next thing | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
the right leg disappeared underneath. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
Two cracks as I went down. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
As I was lying on my back, I realised my foot was at 90 degrees to my knee! | 0:13:09 | 0:13:16 | |
-Get that score card marked up. I'll give you that. -I was holding the match together, as well! | 0:13:16 | 0:13:21 | |
They won't win now without me! | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
Simon's flight to hospital lasts just four minutes. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
No golfer wants their round to end like this. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
All this for a bunker shot! | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
But it's clear Simon still has the game on his mind. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
You've got to see how close to the flag it finished! | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
But it'll be a while before he's tee-ing off again! | 0:13:44 | 0:13:48 | |
Now let's return to the windswept hills above Rochdale, | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
where the team is fighting to rescue a fell runner | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
who's lucky to be alive after a night in sub-zero temperatures. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
Fell running is a sport only for the fittest. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
Runners who take on gruelling marathons in treacherous terrain. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:21 | |
Man against mountain. Injuries are common. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
But this runner is lucky to be alive. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
-Anthony, can you open your eyes for me? -Yes. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
Well done that man. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
Anthony Iggulden, Steve to his mates, has survived a night in sub-zero temperatures, | 0:14:33 | 0:14:38 | |
dressed in shorts and a running vest. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
Unfortunately, this male's come up on his own with no means of communication, | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
no mobile phone or telephone. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
Obviously when he's not returned, there's no means to contact him. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
So they've contacted us about a missing person. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
When they came up last night, they contacted mountain rescue. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
The fact he's still alive is a little short of a miracle. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
I saw the chap laid against the fence there. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
We knew straightaway this is obviously the person we'd all been looking for. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
With him not moving, there was a time where I thought it might be the worst outcome. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:14 | |
But as I got closer, I could see he was shivering | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
so I dumped the bike, took off my fleece, covered him up as best I could. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:23 | |
I think we're ready, lads. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
But paramedic Graham Pemberton is concerned about his patient's condition. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:29 | |
As well as the cold, he's suffering from a deep head wound and a badly broken leg. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:34 | |
How are you doing, Anthony? Open your eyes. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:36 | |
Steve has Alzheimer's and his confusion is making the team's job harder. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:41 | |
Graham has tried to call in an RAF helicopter to winch his patient from the hillside where he's lying. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:48 | |
But it appears the terrain is too difficult, even for the military. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
I got the message that the RAF are not attending. Is that right? Over. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
'Confirmed.' | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
Mountain rescue volunteers carry their patient up the treacherous hillside. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:01 | |
But without an RAF Sea King to assist, | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
the only option left is manpower and determination. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
It's quite a windy day and we're close to the wind farm. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:10 | |
They were worried about where they were in proximity to these massive wind farms. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:15 | |
It was a no-go for them, unfortunately. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
This is a lonely place. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:21 | |
The route to safety takes them past abandoned miners' cottages, | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
along a path trodden out by moorland sheep. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
-'Do you have any spare climbers?' -How many do you want, Ted? | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
'As many as we can, just to get through this section. Over.' | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
The rescuers are taking no chances. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
The safety rope will prevent their patient plunging down the hillside for a second time. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:45 | |
Can we get two of you down there? | 0:16:45 | 0:16:46 | |
Steve's survival has amazed the emergency services. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
But not those who know the toughness of the average fell runner. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
He's a fit bloke, really. He's obviously a good fell runner. | 0:16:54 | 0:17:00 | |
He was sheltered in the valley there, fortunately, | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
and I think it was just below zero last night. Minus one, minus two. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
In cases like this, there's a temptation to raise the patient's body temperature quickly. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:13 | |
But Graham won't be cranking up the heater on this flight. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:17 | |
The normal procedure with hypothermic patients is you can warm them too quickly | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
and send them into shock and cardiac arrest. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:23 | |
So in hospital, they will warm them at one degree per hour. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:27 | |
So if they're stable now, we don't do anything. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
We just keep them stable and take them to hospital | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
and let the hospital deal with it. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:34 | |
If we put the heaters on in the helicopter and warm him too quickly, | 0:17:34 | 0:17:38 | |
we could make him a lot worse than he is already. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
But their patient's not out of the woods yet. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
Hypothermia and his head injury are a dangerous combination. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:49 | |
Remember the biker trapped under a car after a freak accident in West Yorkshire? | 0:17:58 | 0:18:03 | |
Let's find out how the operation to free him is going. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
Put this back here. Behind these two. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:11 | |
Stuart Thornton's rescuers could be about to endanger his life. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
He had been pinned under this car for half an hour. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
The sudden release of its weight could lead to a cardiac arrest. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
We're going to get you safe first, sir. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
-Will it release me? -Yes, it will. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
Ready, steady, move. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
It's the back protector, that's what it is. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:33 | |
At last he's out, and he has survived his release. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:38 | |
But it's now clear he's very badly injured. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
Mind the leg. It's quite displaced off to one side. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
This is the impact his head made on the first car that hit him. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
And only now can Sammy examine him for broken bones. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
I'm just going to cut your shirt, OK? | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
PATIENT CRIES OUT IN PAIN | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
She suspects there are many. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
My mate's got your left leg, mate. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
He has some serious limb injuries. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
INDISTINCT | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
Your pain. If ten is the worst pain imaginable, | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
and zero is none, what number are you at? | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
Eleven. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:20 | |
Which bit hurts the most? | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
-Left shoulder. -Your left shoulder. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
A pain score of 11 out of 10 isn't unusual. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
Morphine usually provides a temporary cure. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
You're just going to feel... It might feel a little cold going in. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
We're giving you morphine now. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Then we can get you more comfy on the board. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
PATIENT GROANS | 0:19:40 | 0:19:41 | |
All right, Stu. Right at the side. We'll come this way. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
Several emergency service teams have been helping Stuart. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:50 | |
They are focusing on one thing. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
Getting him to hospital as quickly and as safely as possible. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
He was breathing OK, although the weight of the car was resting on his chest. | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
Thankfully, the fire brigade weren't too long, so they managed to elevate the car, | 0:20:00 | 0:20:06 | |
get him out, then we could do a full assessment. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
Under the circumstances, he should be, fingers crossed, OK. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
He was obviously wearing the right protective gear. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:15 | |
So that's obviously helped him. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:16 | |
A&E staff partly measure the severity of cases | 0:20:16 | 0:20:21 | |
by what's known as "the mechanism of injury". | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
It doesn't come much worse than the accident Stuart has survived. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:27 | |
First, the impact with the car. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
Then the road, and finally being crushed by the Fiesta. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:33 | |
It's not surprising that the LGI's trauma team sent him straight to surgery. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:40 | |
He undergoes a long and complex operation to save his leg. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
His knee has to be rebuilt and several weeks later, | 0:20:45 | 0:20:49 | |
he is still in hospital with metalwork and pins holding his broken bones together. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:54 | |
The bottom half of my leg is separated from the top half | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
and being held together with the framework. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:01 | |
When the swelling goes down, we hope to rebuild the kneecap | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
and then we'll take it from there. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
Stuart's bones are mending - and he has the itching to prove it! | 0:21:08 | 0:21:14 | |
But he can't remember a thing about the accident. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
I've no idea. It's just... | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
Three months later, and Stuart has made a special request. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:28 | |
Hello! Pleased... Oh, come on. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
He has asked if he can come and meet the paramedic team who helped him, | 0:21:31 | 0:21:35 | |
to say thank you and to piece together exactly what he's been through. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:41 | |
-Doing well. A couple more operations to go. -Have you? | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
Then it could be another 12-month healing process, but we'll get there. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
The last time paramedics Sammy Wills and Al Day saw Stuart, | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
they were dealing with his physical injuries. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:58 | |
Today is about dealing with some of the emotional ones that came afterwards. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
Oh, look at that. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
That's the helmet. I remember when I looked back, | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
that's the helmet I saw. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
See, I'm awake. I can't remember any of this. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
-'What I'd like to do now, boss...' -A £700 helmet, ruined! | 0:22:13 | 0:22:17 | |
They're so cool about it! | 0:22:17 | 0:22:19 | |
It's their day-to-day job. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
For me, if I were to attend a scene such as mine, | 0:22:21 | 0:22:27 | |
I'd just flip out. "Where do we start from here?" | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
But they're professionals. They know what they're doing | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
and you've got to let them do it. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
-That's what I hit with my head. -That's why you hit that thing there. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
I cut my leg. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
VIDEO CONTINUES | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Are you all right? | 0:22:49 | 0:22:51 | |
I feel so grateful, having seen the video, | 0:22:51 | 0:22:55 | |
of how many people attended. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
The emergency services that attended. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
The effort that went in to rescue me... | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
I just owe them so much. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
I'm really grateful. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
Now, what about the fell runner who spent a bitterly cold night out on the Peaks? | 0:23:21 | 0:23:26 | |
Let's catch up on his case. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
Heli-Med 99 has just taken off from a hilltop above Rochdale, | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
carrying a man who should not be alive. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
Steve Iggulden fell down a rock face and broke his leg 24 hours ago. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:43 | |
He is so difficult to find. They were out all night looking for him. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
-It'll be a marvel if we find him today. -I know. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
Now, after a night in temperatures of minus two, | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
the team have started the long process of heating him up in mid-air. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
Manchester's Wythenshawe Hospital is just ten minutes' flying time. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:02 | |
Specialists are waiting to examine him. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:05 | |
The fact that he runs every day across the moors has kept him alive. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
Cos he's so fit, it's kept him alive through the night. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
If it had been a more frail person of his age, | 0:24:11 | 0:24:16 | |
I don't think it would be the same outcome. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
Their patient's family feared he was lying dead out on the moors. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
Now his relieved wife and daughter are on the way to the hospital by road. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:27 | |
And his survival is already making headlines. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:30 | |
NEWS: 'A man who went missing from his home near Ramsbottom on Sunday | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
'has been found by Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue team. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
'He'd fallen down a 70-feet drop and suffered a fractured skull and punctured lung.' | 0:24:37 | 0:24:43 | |
Slowly, doctors raise Steve's body temperature to normal levels | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
and he responds well. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
A month later and he's been moved to North Manchester General Hospital. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:52 | |
His leg was badly broken in the fall and he's still in a wheelchair. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:57 | |
But otherwise, he's making a good recovery. | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
-I brought us some tea. -Oh, good. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
Steve has cheated death by the narrowest of margins. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
But while his body is super-fit, | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
as an Alzheimer's sufferer, mentally he is still confused. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:12 | |
-That's nice. -Is that nice? -It's good. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
His onset of Alzheimer's has been very, very gradual. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:17 | |
And he's remained very fit, | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
physically fit and well throughout. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:22 | |
He does have disabilities from it, | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
but one of his main joys has been to run, swim, go to the gym. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:29 | |
He really loves the outdoors. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
It's always been, for the last two or three years, | 0:25:31 | 0:25:35 | |
um... | 0:25:35 | 0:25:36 | |
..a difficult risk to take. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
Because he's not frail. He's very active, very energetic. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:46 | |
So I've tried to always keep an eye on him in strange places, | 0:25:46 | 0:25:50 | |
when we're away. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
But he has, up till now, been safe. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
For Helen, the 23 hours she spent waiting for news of her husband | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
as mountain rescue teams combed the moors, | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
will not be easily forgotten. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
But as the evening drew in, she became increasingly concerned. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
A very good friend of mine came and sat with me. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
We must have had about 20 cups of tea. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
I kept thinking, "God, this is a horrible nightmare. I wish I'd wake up." | 0:26:16 | 0:26:21 | |
It really, I thought, "This is so awful, it just can't possibly be true. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:26 | |
"I must be having a really bad dream." | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
Steve and his legendary fitness are well known to many of his rescuers. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:34 | |
While the odds were against him surviving that night, | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
some of the searchers were optimistic he'd be found alive. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:40 | |
The first thing he said to me was, "I'm sorry." | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
So he was aware the whole time, even though he had a head injury, | 0:26:46 | 0:26:52 | |
he'd been aware through the night. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
He said to me later, he'd thought he was a gonner. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:58 | |
And there was no point in shouting because there was nobody around and it was pitch-black. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:02 | |
He does remember the fall, | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
but I haven't probed him about it. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:08 | |
Cos probably it's better that we just sort of think, | 0:27:08 | 0:27:13 | |
"That was a horrible experience. We don't want to go on and on re-experiencing it." | 0:27:13 | 0:27:17 | |
Steve's injuries from the fall will heal. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
For his family, there are still tough times ahead, | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
but they can take comfort in the fact that he is a survivor. He will not give up without a fight. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:30 | |
You won't be surprised to hear that Anthony isn't planning on hanging up his running shoes just yet. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:35 | |
He intends to get back out on the fells as soon as his leg is healed. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:39 |