After having worked ems for years in the US its amazing the difference in care under a not for profit medical system. Every single one of these cases would likely bankrupt these people if having occurred in the US, even down to how they treat pain is on a totally different level. Money should not be any part of treatment from emergency to final treatment, but here in the US that the main focus with care being the secondary...
I was recalling how on an ambulance ride they told me they couldn't give me pain medicine, only the ER could. I figured the reason why is they want my insurance info first. I've been sitting in the ER before throwing up from pain and they won't give you anything until the ER doctor sees you and that can be hours. It's also very costly. I live 3mins from the hospital so I've been driven and dropped off and have dropped people off who live nearby. No one wants the ambulance bill.
And this is the reason I won't go to the hospital unless I'm dying I don't like hospitals or doctors so there's that I've thought about moving to another country just for the health care cuz the US health care system leaves alot to be desired
I agree with T Johnson here and want to clarify…Although the focus of the EMS SYSTEM in the US needs improvement, our EMS responders demonstrate genuine dedication to their profession and typically, their primary concern is excellent patient care. Seeing how the UK’s system works gives me that much more respect for US responders, as they navigate a very tricky balance between what the system expects and what they know their patients need. Their sacrifice isn’t lost on me & my gratitude runs deep. 💕
@@servicegemsapphire4593 I mean, quized on social studies? I get you're trying to make a joke, but asking who the leader of your country is and not being able to say is quite worrying.
@@majorphysics3669 OMG yes I know this believe it or not I have a disability that can cause me to pass out and hit my head and I get asked these types of questions all the time by parametrics even though I have patches on my dogs vest that say its normal for me to pass out and not to call 911 unless im hurt, because my dog alerts and tell me when to lie down so I dont hit my head, and a step further from that she'll lay down on me to make sure I dont stand up or get freaked out. I just found it funny because of the amount of times the same type of questions have been asked to me and the odd moment when I didn't know the answer.😒
Please wear your seatbelts everyone. It will save your ass. Been in an accident, and believe me, it's not good. In an accident, just one person not wearing belt can kill everyone from bouncing around
12 years ago, My husband let tiredness make him forget to wear his seat belt and it cost him his life as he fell asleep at the wheel, went off the road and rolled his work truck. Seat belt would have at least kept him in his seat and possibly saved his life.
My brother had a friend who went through the open sunroof after his car flipped and died instantly. Everyone else in the car was wearing their seatbelts and walked away.
I lost my husband in a truck roll over 12 years ago because he wasn't wearing his seat belt. He normally always did and he was so tired from working on call all weekend, he just didn't put it on for some reason.
I do want to say one of my friend was wearing seatbelts he woulda prolly lived if he hadn't from what I heard he got stuck between the console and door and seatbelts held him to where if he wasnt seatbelts he would be thrown clear..but ye its soso I personally use seatbelts makes me feel alot better but my friend died cuz of it
I just rewatched that part and the medic when they were taking off said that the arm was shredded but the hand was still attached, then they weren't able to rebuild it at hospital. Can you imagine getting a teddy bear for Christmas though, and feeling something strange inside? That's like a Nightmare Before Christmas kinda gift there!
That guy who fell off the rocks onto his head is so, SO lucky....his wife and young daughter could very easily have just watched him die. Life can be much for fragile than people think and it truly can be over in an instant. Reminder to hug your loved ones and not take anyone for granted.
Alaskans laugh at people who can’t take slightly cold temperatures. Not in a mean way, but it is funny how different people have such varying standards for what is cold or what is hot.
@@coolgirlfrozenfeet I don't even live in a cold country, but I laughed like crazy when some Brazilians who'd just moved here confessed they'd put on their clothes over their pjs bc they were too cold to take them off. It was only about 8ºC 😂 (In their defense, buildings don't have heating and are made to keep out heat, not cold, so they can get uncomfortable. Winters are also very humid and windy, so the cold bites a lot more than the temperature would indicate. I've lived in the UK since then and found that their much colder but dry winters feel warmer.)
I think that's so sad that people don't go there because of the lack of money. Our health insurance is mandatory, about a 100 euro's eacht month and then pretty mucht everything is covered. There is a part that's called 'own risk' which is 385 euro's a year which you have to pay if you need it and everything above that is for the insurance company.
My nephew dropped hot coffee on himself around that age as well about a year and a half ago. Grabbed it off the counter and spilled it all over his arm. Had to go to the ER twice, burns were pretty bad but luckily he fully recovered and now you can’t even tell he was burned. Bless this poor child, I hope he’s alright. Hearing that crying broke me down, the paramedics are heroes.
@@hientrinh590 If the car was almost stopped when it hit you, so just giving you a small nudge, it will be qualified as a fall in our system. Meaning that any potential damage that you have is not from the car hitting you (so trauma to the abdomen, lower extremities, extreme violent kinetic energy, etc), but the fall that you took afterwards. If it was a fast car, the prevalent mechanism of injury will be the car impact. If a fast car throws you off a cliff, you'll have polymechanism injuries, consistent with both car impact AND fall. In a fall (not a runover), it's the stop that hurts. Even in a car crash, what creates injuries is the fact that you suddenly stop, but your brain keeps travelling forward and then bounces around; a car crash at 100km/h where you DON'T suddenly stop is less deadly than a car crash at 60km/h where you DO suddenly stop (reason why dampening barriers work in car races: you don't stop as fast). Same with a fall where you bump your head, that's how you get a concussion (and even possibly die) from a minor fall.
is it where it was ? these workers who operate on fast moving conveyor belts with sharp machines, are always at risk. One second of inattention and they lose something....Happens a lot , in factories. Sad but a reality.
Damn, I can’t imagine the horror being a kid and having blood red stuffing come out of the stuffed animal ( yes ik they would have held back that stuffing)
Why is that little sitting by herself why is no one including her to show her what’s going on and tell her it will be aright ugh I felt her sadness threw my phone when watching on UA-cam
Yeah I would have sent someone over there to make sure she was ok. She did have her dog. That helps a little and maybe they didn't show someone talking to her but I'm sure they did.
They probably went to her as well, just not on camera, also the mother was there too so she wasn't alone. In those scenarios it's better to have as little people as possible
17:30 When the elderly woman was told that she would have a trip to the hospital, and answered blithely "yeah," I was surprised. I was thinking about what I might think were I in this situation here in the USA, and I know that the first thing that would come to mind would be "can I afford a trip to the Emergency Room?" How crazy is it that we in the US are forced to do a costs/benefits analysis when we have a traumatic event? I can still recall the time I went ill, in a remote area of Oregon, and they told me I ws going to need to be life-flighted to a larger area for life-saving Emergency. I was so full of pain killers that I sort of waved them off. I was NOT feeling nonchalant when the bill came for the air-ambulance. $57,000
See I don’t get this , is every single person in the US in debt for tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars ? What happens if you don’t pay ? Is there insurance ?
@@TheAlsdkf A lot of people are in debt. The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was my saving grace. Because it passed before my life-or-death emergency, it limited my out-of-pocket expenditures to something like $9000. So I "only" had to pay for that much of the costs of my emergency, which would have otherwise cost approximately $250,000 without insurance. The Insurance did try to deny the whole thing though, because it was complications from gastric Bypass Surgery. Insurance companies make you jump through a lot of hoops to get that, then after 18 months or so of all those hoops and so forth, you finally get approved. Some people don't want to wait, and get the surgery but pay for it out of their own pocket - but the downside is that you can get horribly burned if you have complications. Health Care insurance isn't going to pay for complications for elective surgery they didn't approve of. They told me that there were no records that they'd approved the weight loss surgery, so they wouldn't pay for the life-flight, emergency surgery, followup surgery, etc. etc. Luckily for me, they can't deny the insurance benefit if the elective surgery took place before you were covered by them, especially if it WAS approved by your former employers' insurance, and more than 8 years prior to getting the new job. I had to fight with them, but they did concede. Sady if our politics return us to having the former president, he's vowed to annhialate the Affordable Care Act. Including protections for pre-existing conditions. In the bad old pre-Obamacare days, they could have denied my health care because I had that condition when I was first insured, so it was pre-existing. In fact, being a woman is considered a pre-existing condition. I can only pray that those who wish to eliminate health care protections won't get in power. What we have is horrible, but it was once so much worse
I got burned on both my heels when I was six weeks old - 2nd degree (accident by my father). I’m 29 now and I’m still dealing with the skin graphs from it. There’s no relief for old burn injuries, so I hope it all works out for the little one!
When I was little maybe 4 to 5 years I was playing with a stuffed bear and my sister threw it on the stove top, I didn't know the stove was on and went to grab it when I did the fur melted into my hand, nothing helped the pain except for warm water that had dawn dish washing liquid in it. I remember going to grab the bear but after that my memory is blank probably cause of the pain. Edit: we still have the bear and it has my hand print on its stomach
i got 3rd degree burns when i was 18 months old, didnt get a skin graph in 1993, other than the massive scar on my arm from my wrist to elbow, i dont have any pain
That helicopter looks so damn cool. It's nice that they have the resources to offer a helicopter ride when the accident is an hour or two from the hospital. Here in NY, I've lived 2 hours from the hospital and had a $3,500 ambulance ride after a motorcycle accident. Don't want to imagine what a helicopter ride woukd cost!
The helicopters in the whole UK are totally funded by a charity, and many of the folks who have been helped, will host neighborhood fundraisers as well. It is quite a wonderful thing, that the community cares enough to support care for all with speed and state of the art medical treatment.👍💜💞🤩🤓
In the US many people think that health care is an entitlement. Few would consider a neighborhood fundraiser. GoFundMe has been overused and abused so people no longer participate.
My daughter got hold of a hot black coffee when she was a toddler. Similar outcome, she had more aria blistered. But we lived close to a hospital so she got seen quickly. No lasting scaring. Hope this little boy is as lucky.
It's really GOOD to see the most important "first responders" treating people with compassion, using their expertise and education, and really meaning WELL. Very good to see!
British people are so polite. The wife to the guy who split open his head: "Why did you not listen to me? " Wife from US: "What the fuck did you think was gonna happen, you idiot"
@@Bunham2 of course she will. Take her on a trip to any OR ; she will get the picture. Same if you have a teen who wants a motorcycle. Take the kid for a stroll into any ICU and let him see these kids who are brain dead, waiting for the families to decide if they will be organ donors or not.....That is life ! it is sad to shelter kids from our reality and it is deceptive. We do not live in Victorian times. People die, all over the place !!!!!! the best protection against any trauma is the love of people around them, and not the scary pictures.
@@linanicolia1363 That shit sticks with adults for life. Imagine it being a 10 year old who has absolutely no idea what is happening. There is a difference between sheltering children, and being responsible for their emotional well-being. I really hope you aren't a parent.
@@Drux.i It would be more terrifying for the child if life-saving care wasn't given to the father; a 10 year old child can understand what is going on and that the orange bright adults are working to save her father. The father is talking, he even smiled and cracked a joke. The mother, instead of crying holding his husband's hand, should be the prime responsible for her daughter emotional well-being. Then again, she has the dog, and dogs are way better at emotional comfort than adults can be (an hysterical mother won't do much to calm the child, a cuddly dog will). If it was a younger child, I'd waste 20seconds to give her a baloon glove and make a joke. But there's not much time to spare when dealing with a possible brain injury and cervical trauma. Seeing adults being responsible, taking care, doing things, is often more calming; I've had young kids yell at me to help their parents when we take 20 or 30 minutes to assess vitals and aren't speaking. Through action they sense that they are being helped. In my years as an EMT, I've never once seen an hysterical child over the age of 5 when care was being given... even in the darkest moments, such as the father trying to kill the mother. They are scared, and traumatised, but being busy and providing care is many times better for them than to try to engage in conversation or "emotional support" - unless you are trained in pediatric psychology, you may make it much worse, it may create guilt and further trauma ("this person came to talk to me, but that means she's not helping my daddy, if my daddy gets worse, it's my fault because I looked like I needed help"). If an adult survives and is well, the trauma will not be much lived. She might get a phobia of tall places, or a phobia of slipping an falling, but the emotional trauma usually gets washed away if the outcome is positive. I've seen more collected 12 year olds calling for an ambulance for their dead or severely ill parents and requesting help for their parents than grown-arse hysterical adults with not so severe cases. We don't give enough credit to children. They do have an idea of what is happening, sometimes more than some adults; the reaction of the wife is very poor for someone who has a daughter, for example, while the child staying away and hugging dog instead of making a fuss and getting in the way of treatment is a very healthy and self-coping reaction. Children do respond better to positive actions than they do respond bad to negative actions.
Oh man, I know it's probably shock, but the first guy who amputated his arm was so calm. I would have been a crying mess, knowing that I've lost a limb.
I love how US firefighters and rescue paramedics and UK firefighters and rescue paramedics all have the same demeanor and attitudes. ALL the respect to the men and women who do this
Gosh I cant imagine how frustrating it must be to be allergic to so many different things, things common in every day items and things you dont even know about!! I hope she's able to lessen her attacks, both the severety and the amount..
I had no idea they use the same brand of health monitors and such that we use here in the US-WelchAllyn. Also, well done to the young Army men who stepped up so cheerfully and dutifully to help the fall victim!
We also use WelchAllyn over here (Portugal), but Lifepak is way more prevalent (Zoll is probably the less common, but I know that a lot of US folks like it better).
There was a one armed guy I used to chat with at my local bar. He was so young. He worked at a factory right out of high school. He had reached in to grab/clear something from his machine (a big press) in the split second the press was up but it slammed down on him. There was no saving the limb due to the crushing pressure of the machine. I always felt so bad for him.
Anyone else felt so bad for the daughter of the man who fell, Rob? I was sitting here going “hopeing someone goes to her so she doesn’t sit all alone. This is traumatizing for the poor girl.” I didn’t see anyone doing it but ofc it was cut clips. I should know with how many times mom has been in an ambulance, it’s something that sticks by you!
Britain is such a beautiful country. I can’t wait to come visit as soon as we can. Greetings from Loveland Colorado. I have worked with plenty of your warriors and will stand with you any day.
The woman with anaphylaxis might be reacting to the epi itself. I have extremely nasty to reactions to sulphites, and epi pens have buckets of it in it. I use compounded epi, kept in the freezer. A defrosted one is on my person at all times. Inconvenient, but i Dont have amy rebound reactions with it. And none of the hangover the next day. At my worst i was up to 5 anaphylactic reactions a day. Now its closer to 2-3 per week. I am brand specific to diphenhydramine. A shot of the wrong one will make me SO much worse. I am jumping to conclusions- I'd put money on her having MCAS.
MCAS? I have not heard of this. I can't imagine having multiple attacks weekly or even monthly. In April I awoke not being able to draw a whole breath and it was terrifying. Turns out double pneumonia was the culprit. I had no idea and no symptoms so had no idea why I was unable to breathe.
@@samiraperi467 It seems every country has its own version of Trump. There's the original, the UK has Boris Johnson, we in The Netherlands have Geert Wilders, etc.
If the proper safety measures are taken, accidents shouldn't happen at all. Of course broken machines can play a part, but if something is broken it shouldn't be neglected it should be tagged out immediately
Reminds me of a case I got a few years back. Working my very first day as a private EMT in a big concert (I was a Fire EMT by a few years then). They are still putting up the structure, so no big stuff should happen, just minor sprains, or someone dropping a box on their foot. At worse, some rigger drops a few metres and bumps his helmeted head on the frame. The garbage truck comes in, just a municipal car, not related in any way to the venue. Suddenly, trashman loses half his wrist operating the machine and we have to run all the damn way over from the other side of the venue (the bit where the bins were stationed were not part of our hired space). Turns out that that specific part of the machine that can eat your limbs out should have a protective part to prevent that from happening; but since it made a weird noise and needed to be lubed and maintained regularly, some bright mind took the protective part out. Also, I knew that trashman from other minor accidents (he worked in my firehouse area) and he was more often than not drinking a bit too much at lunch. A sober person wouldn't have lost his wrist. A drunk person operating the machine with the damn protective part wouldn't have lost his wrist. All was wrong that day.
My husband had a stroke about 2015. Air lifted 200 miles away. We had insurance but the bill was still $7000. The trauma hospital was also about $7000 after insurance coverage. I'm lucky to have my husband doing so well. We're still paying off the $14000.
Despite loosing the hand , from time 6:30 on I kept my fingers crossed so they can find his hand put on ice and be able to reattach , perform the wonders of modern medical surgery , starting with air ambulance quick & professional response.
? you are confusing this accident with fast moving machines like cars or planes. It is why we have these seat belts.......no need for protection in factories. Your brain/attention is what counts. You mess up and you loose something.
My daughter died this summer at home from a gash in the same place on her head. She should have dialed 911, but sadly, she’d had a lot to drink and our poor girl bled to death.
I came here just to say the same. I went to Europe this past winter and wandered around with a thin rain jacket on while my Australian companions were wearing parkas, scarves, hats and mitts and kept complaining about how cold it was.
Well, it's actually weird - but, I grew up in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen - and -40°C there is almost better than -10°C in Oslo (Norways capitol) bc of the humidity 🙈
@@dawnj2360 Wow, it almost sounds like it depends on what you're used to! So annoying, people saying ''Oh 40 degrees it's nothing, it's 50 C here'' or ''oh, -5 is nothing, it's -40 C here.''
Ok but really, if there are any other Americans here, can y'all understand anything the guy said at 14:14 "Paramedic, Tony Wilks knows this could be a difficult case." Tony: afhh ablt could be trapped afibskjd ubf akjhuf life threatening
Desde Argentina, les mando un saludo AFECTUOSO, a cada uno de los componen este video de EMERGENCIA, y felicitaciones por el profesionalismo demostrado. 👩🚒👩🚒👩🚒🚒🚒🚒🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Being in the US we have hospitals pretty close to most places but we still have life flight choppers. We have them for the most serious cases. I have been sent to a larger hospital after a heart attack. The cost was over $27,000 USD. Saved my life though. I had only left work for about an hour and a half before going back and checking in as a patient. Sounds like these choppers are quite busy.
Do these people not think when looking for a missing hand? It's inside the machine, obviously. I didn't see anyone even think to look inside that machine.
An hours drive and they sent a helicopter? In Canada most of us would have driven the kid to hospital. My dad had the same injury/situation ( he pulled the table cloth and a teapot fell on him and he had 2nd degree burns all over his torso and back) When he was a toddler and they drove him.
6 years ago a Taxi Cab pulled my left leg under the right back wheel. I was getting into the taxi and wasn’t all the way in when he drove off pulling me under the cab. Where I live is in one of the wealthiest counties in Florida. When paramedic arrived I was in shock and my leg had skin and muscle torn off my Achilles tendon was lying on the street and my left ankle was in a position that wasn’t possible. Our paramedics do not carry pain meds. Our ambulances do not carry anything to safely scoop and secure what my leg had on the street. My neighbor found a box and cut the box open to use. Unbelievable. I watch these shows and I can’t believe it. Mind you that was just 6 years ago. I was airlifted to the best trauma center and my experience with their medics was night and day. Pain medicine and we even laughed.
When I see injuries like that my stomach feels kinda weird. Stomach: o my god that hurts so much. And I think that’s what happens in there and sometimes I kinda feel weak but i can walk move and run
After having worked ems for years in the US its amazing the difference in care under a not for profit medical system. Every single one of these cases would likely bankrupt these people if having occurred in the US, even down to how they treat pain is on a totally different level. Money should not be any part of treatment from emergency to final treatment, but here in the US that the main focus with care being the secondary...
I heard it described as the US healthcare has customers, the UK healthcare has patients
Too true. Health care is a medical football for politicians to bounce around.🤮🤮🤣
I was recalling how on an ambulance ride they told me they couldn't give me pain medicine, only the ER could. I figured the reason why is they want my insurance info first. I've been sitting in the ER before throwing up from pain and they won't give you anything until the ER doctor sees you and that can be hours. It's also very costly. I live 3mins from the hospital so I've been driven and dropped off and have dropped people off who live nearby. No one wants the ambulance bill.
And this is the reason I won't go to the hospital unless I'm dying I don't like hospitals or doctors so there's that I've thought about moving to another country just for the health care cuz the US health care system leaves alot to be desired
I agree with T Johnson here and want to clarify…Although the focus of the EMS SYSTEM in the US needs improvement, our EMS responders demonstrate genuine dedication to their profession and typically, their primary concern is excellent patient care. Seeing how the UK’s system works gives me that much more respect for US responders, as they navigate a very tricky balance between what the system expects and what they know their patients need. Their sacrifice isn’t lost on me & my gratitude runs deep. 💕
Of course the poor girls going to cry... she just watched her husband fall off a cliff and hit rocks. My God i would be a mess
Omg I know. Like he easily could have died.
Could they be more patronising to her?
Jacqueline Barnard definitely, she was so scared and emotional I felt so bad for her too.
It’s one of those things where you cry because of the terror of what could have happened.....and what still might happen
She didn't even offer him any water. Really shows how much she cares.
Imagine falling 5 meters and then being quized on social studies. This is why paying attention in school is important.
There is a huge difference between head injuries and not paying attention in school 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@louisavennisa9323 r/whoosh
@@servicegemsapphire4593 I mean, quized on social studies? I get you're trying to make a joke, but asking who the leader of your country is and not being able to say is quite worrying.
@@majorphysics3669 OMG yes I know this believe it or not I have a disability that can cause me to pass out and hit my head and I get asked these types of questions all the time by parametrics even though I have patches on my dogs vest that say its normal for me to pass out and not to call 911 unless im hurt, because my dog alerts and tell me when to lie down so I dont hit my head, and a step further from that she'll lay down on me to make sure I dont stand up or get freaked out. I just found it funny because of the amount of times the same type of questions have been asked to me and the odd moment when I didn't know the answer.😒
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Please wear your seatbelts everyone. It will save your ass. Been in an accident, and believe me, it's not good. In an accident, just one person not wearing belt can kill everyone from bouncing around
Ah! Great point...we call that a “missile hazard” in my line of work. It can kill.
12 years ago, My husband let tiredness make him forget to wear his seat belt and it cost him his life as he fell asleep at the wheel, went off the road and rolled his work truck. Seat belt would have at least kept him in his seat and possibly saved his life.
My brother had a friend who went through the open sunroof after his car flipped and died instantly. Everyone else in the car was wearing their seatbelts and walked away.
I lost my husband in a truck roll over 12 years ago because he wasn't wearing his seat belt. He normally always did and he was so tired from working on call all weekend, he just didn't put it on for some reason.
I do want to say one of my friend was wearing seatbelts he woulda prolly lived if he hadn't from what I heard he got stuck between the console and door and seatbelts held him to where if he wasnt seatbelts he would be thrown clear..but ye its soso I personally use seatbelts makes me feel alot better but my friend died cuz of it
I wouldn’t know who the prime mister is without a head injury
I wouldn't want to know ...
Same
Same here
I think it is their equivalent to asking us who our president is
@@gennyzelis2303 lmao good one
So theres a hand in one of those stuffed animals? :o
Oml
It says at the end that doctors tried to re attach it, but it didn't take.
I just rewatched that part and the medic when they were taking off said that the arm was shredded but the hand was still attached, then they weren't able to rebuild it at hospital.
Can you imagine getting a teddy bear for Christmas though, and feeling something strange inside? That's like a Nightmare Before Christmas kinda gift there!
But is there blood in some stuffed teddies
5 nights at Freddie's.
That guy who fell off the rocks onto his head is so, SO lucky....his wife and young daughter could very easily have just watched him die. Life can be much for fragile than people think and it truly can be over in an instant. Reminder to hug your loved ones and not take anyone for granted.
winter has it in its grip "its -5"
nervously laughs in canadian hoping it doesn't go to -50
Me nervously laughing in Florida hoping it doesn't get below 60° 😁
Alaskans laugh at people who can’t take slightly cold temperatures. Not in a mean way, but it is funny how different people have such varying standards for what is cold or what is hot.
Its gotten colder than MARS a couple times here.
Ya it’s brutal living in Canada
@@coolgirlfrozenfeet I don't even live in a cold country, but I laughed like crazy when some Brazilians who'd just moved here confessed they'd put on their clothes over their pjs bc they were too cold to take them off. It was only about 8ºC 😂
(In their defense, buildings don't have heating and are made to keep out heat, not cold, so they can get uncomfortable. Winters are also very humid and windy, so the cold bites a lot more than the temperature would indicate. I've lived in the UK since then and found that their much colder but dry winters feel warmer.)
Me, an American: "Wow, ambulance rides are costly, imagine a helicopter ride."
Also me: *Remembers you guys don't have to pay for ambulances.
Are you actually sent an invoice if you are injured and needs to be taken to hospital?
@@NegleLir In america ambulance cost like 500-2500 dollars
@@NegleLir yep. insurance can help but it depends on your provider and deductable. don't ask lol
I think that's so sad that people don't go there because of the lack of money. Our health insurance is mandatory, about a 100 euro's eacht month and then pretty mucht everything is covered. There is a part that's called 'own risk' which is 385 euro's a year which you have to pay if you need it and everything above that is for the insurance company.
@@metsamaa only if it's a private ambulance company, paramedics from the fire department dont cost anything.
My nephew dropped hot coffee on himself around that age as well about a year and a half ago. Grabbed it off the counter and spilled it all over his arm. Had to go to the ER twice, burns were pretty bad but luckily he fully recovered and now you can’t even tell he was burned. Bless this poor child, I hope he’s alright. Hearing that crying broke me down, the paramedics are heroes.
41:10 "Don't worry, Jon, we're half way there" 🤣🤣🤣
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@@mysticprophecy5395 dammit man, you spoilt the emoji chain.
The medical professionals on the roads and from the air are angels.
its not the fall, its that sudden stop that hurts.
So your telling me if a car suddenly stops and hit me
That’s a fall?
@@hientrinh590 ? If you live in a world where a warped sense of humor is required then . yes.
shock sets in and after all the confusion, they move on, accepting what they have left, which is life minus one limb.
@@hientrinh590 If the car was almost stopped when it hit you, so just giving you a small nudge, it will be qualified as a fall in our system. Meaning that any potential damage that you have is not from the car hitting you (so trauma to the abdomen, lower extremities, extreme violent kinetic energy, etc), but the fall that you took afterwards. If it was a fast car, the prevalent mechanism of injury will be the car impact. If a fast car throws you off a cliff, you'll have polymechanism injuries, consistent with both car impact AND fall.
In a fall (not a runover), it's the stop that hurts. Even in a car crash, what creates injuries is the fact that you suddenly stop, but your brain keeps travelling forward and then bounces around; a car crash at 100km/h where you DON'T suddenly stop is less deadly than a car crash at 60km/h where you DO suddenly stop (reason why dampening barriers work in car races: you don't stop as fast). Same with a fall where you bump your head, that's how you get a concussion (and even possibly die) from a minor fall.
@@hientrinh590 that not the same thing at all
Poor guy lost his arm at a stuffed animal factory!
is it where it was ? these workers who operate on fast moving conveyor belts with sharp machines, are always at risk. One second of inattention and they lose something....Happens a lot , in factories. Sad but a reality.
Damn, I can’t imagine the horror being a kid and having blood red stuffing come out of the stuffed animal ( yes ik they would have held back that stuffing)
I am from the US and love watching the UK so much. From everything I’ve seen it’s so much kinder and more compassionate
Resect for the army lads there that were able to help with the chap who fell off the rock!
Serious bonus when there's a bunch of young troops around to lend a hand! BZ boys!
@@keeneyeful your English is so cute😆
@@prihaps what’s cute about it? Oh and I just realised I think resect is supposed to be respect.. but is this cute? Just a typo maybe :)
@@Dr_KAP y are u pressed on her opinion
@@ningbronsin9826 Yes Mam, yes.
All rescue workers are heroes!
so much respect for the medics, pilots, nurses
Aww that little boy stop crying as soon as the heli took ofd, hope he makes a full recovery along with everyone else in this episode
Mad respect for these people
Amen
Trust
Why is that little sitting by herself why is no one including her to show her what’s going on and tell her it will be aright ugh I felt her sadness threw my phone when watching on UA-cam
Yeah I would have sent someone over there to make sure she was ok. She did have her dog. That helps a little and maybe they didn't show someone talking to her but I'm sure they did.
They probably went to her as well, just not on camera, also the mother was there too so she wasn't alone. In those scenarios it's better to have as little people as possible
damn chill
17:30 When the elderly woman was told that she would have a trip to the hospital, and answered blithely "yeah," I was surprised. I was thinking about what I might think were I in this situation here in the USA, and I know that the first thing that would come to mind would be "can I afford a trip to the Emergency Room?"
How crazy is it that we in the US are forced to do a costs/benefits analysis when we have a traumatic event?
I can still recall the time I went ill, in a remote area of Oregon, and they told me I ws going to need to be life-flighted to a larger area for life-saving Emergency. I was so full of pain killers that I sort of waved them off.
I was NOT feeling nonchalant when the bill came for the air-ambulance. $57,000
If you were thinking more clearly you could have gotten that and more for for free by claiming you were an illegal alien.
See I don’t get this , is every single person in the US in debt for tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars ? What happens if you don’t pay ? Is there insurance ?
@@TheAlsdkf A lot of people are in debt. The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was my saving grace. Because it passed before my life-or-death emergency, it limited my out-of-pocket expenditures to something like $9000. So I "only" had to pay for that much of the costs of my emergency, which would have otherwise cost approximately $250,000 without insurance. The Insurance did try to deny the whole thing though, because it was complications from gastric Bypass Surgery. Insurance companies make you jump through a lot of hoops to get that, then after 18 months or so of all those hoops and so forth, you finally get approved. Some people don't want to wait, and get the surgery but pay for it out of their own pocket - but the downside is that you can get horribly burned if you have complications. Health Care insurance isn't going to pay for complications for elective surgery they didn't approve of. They told me that there were no records that they'd approved the weight loss surgery, so they wouldn't pay for the life-flight, emergency surgery, followup surgery, etc. etc. Luckily for me, they can't deny the insurance benefit if the elective surgery took place before you were covered by them, especially if it WAS approved by your former employers' insurance, and more than 8 years prior to getting the new job. I had to fight with them, but they did concede.
Sady if our politics return us to having the former president, he's vowed to annhialate the Affordable Care Act. Including protections for pre-existing conditions. In the bad old pre-Obamacare days, they could have denied my health care because I had that condition when I was first insured, so it was pre-existing. In fact, being a woman is considered a pre-existing condition. I can only pray that those who wish to eliminate health care protections won't get in power. What we have is horrible, but it was once so much worse
I got burned on both my heels when I was six weeks old - 2nd degree (accident by my father). I’m 29 now and I’m still dealing with the skin graphs from it. There’s no relief for old burn injuries, so I hope it all works out for the little one!
Larc91 that’s so awful, I’m so sorry that happened to you.
Oh that's devastating 😔
When I was little maybe 4 to 5 years I was playing with a stuffed bear and my sister threw it on the stove top, I didn't know the stove was on and went to grab it when I did the fur melted into my hand, nothing helped the pain except for warm water that had dawn dish washing liquid in it. I remember going to grab the bear but after that my memory is blank probably cause of the pain.
Edit: we still have the bear and it has my hand print on its stomach
i got 3rd degree burns when i was 18 months old, didnt get a skin graph in 1993, other than the massive scar on my arm from my wrist to elbow, i dont have any pain
Wow, that is quite terrible for you. I assumed injuries at such an early age would heal automatically. I hope you can find relief.💜
Poor little boy. He was scared to death and in pain.
happened to me when i was 18 months old, 3 weeks in the hospital. 1993
"There's a bit of confusion whether it's the whole arm or just the hand and lower arm" "oh"
That helicopter looks so damn cool. It's nice that they have the resources to offer a helicopter ride when the accident is an hour or two from the hospital. Here in NY, I've lived 2 hours from the hospital and had a $3,500 ambulance ride after a motorcycle accident. Don't want to imagine what a helicopter ride woukd cost!
The helicopters in the whole UK are totally funded by a charity, and many of the folks who have been helped, will host neighborhood fundraisers as well. It is quite a wonderful thing, that the community cares enough to support care for all with speed and state of the art medical treatment.👍💜💞🤩🤓
In the US many people think that health care is an entitlement. Few would consider a neighborhood fundraiser. GoFundMe has been overused and abused so people no longer participate.
My daughter got hold of a hot black coffee when she was a toddler. Similar outcome, she had more aria blistered. But we lived close to a hospital so she got seen quickly. No lasting scaring. Hope this little boy is as lucky.
It's really GOOD to see the most important "first responders" treating people with compassion, using their expertise and education, and really meaning WELL. Very good to see!
im a responder too here in phillipines and i was a rokie good to see your video like this to motivate me and others...👍👍🙏🙏🚑🚑
dennmark tero: Thank you for your service!
I can feel the pain through the screen 💔 for the patients. Kudos to the paramedics 🙏🏽
British people are so polite. The wife to the guy who split open his head: "Why did you not listen to me? " Wife from US: "What the fuck did you think was gonna happen, you idiot"
Ha, aint that the truth!
I’m American and I tell ya that wouldn’t happen I mean if I was a girl I wouldn’t say that
True enough.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@opts__official796 admittedly, it's a sweeping generalization but I think it's true in general.
@@opts__official796: Try punctuation. It's groovy stuff.
who is comforting the 10 year old daughter through this?? WTF
the dog, it seems like
she will get over it. Keep that man from bleeding to death !
@@Bunham2 of course she will. Take her on a trip to any OR ; she will get the picture. Same if you have a teen who wants a motorcycle. Take the kid for a stroll into any ICU and let him see these kids who are brain dead, waiting for the families to decide if they will be organ donors or not.....That is life ! it is sad to shelter kids from our reality and it is deceptive. We do not live in Victorian times. People die, all over the place !!!!!! the best protection against any trauma is the love of people around them, and not the scary pictures.
@@linanicolia1363 That shit sticks with adults for life. Imagine it being a 10 year old who has absolutely no idea what is happening. There is a difference between sheltering children, and being responsible for their emotional well-being. I really hope you aren't a parent.
@@Drux.i It would be more terrifying for the child if life-saving care wasn't given to the father; a 10 year old child can understand what is going on and that the orange bright adults are working to save her father. The father is talking, he even smiled and cracked a joke. The mother, instead of crying holding his husband's hand, should be the prime responsible for her daughter emotional well-being. Then again, she has the dog, and dogs are way better at emotional comfort than adults can be (an hysterical mother won't do much to calm the child, a cuddly dog will).
If it was a younger child, I'd waste 20seconds to give her a baloon glove and make a joke. But there's not much time to spare when dealing with a possible brain injury and cervical trauma. Seeing adults being responsible, taking care, doing things, is often more calming; I've had young kids yell at me to help their parents when we take 20 or 30 minutes to assess vitals and aren't speaking. Through action they sense that they are being helped. In my years as an EMT, I've never once seen an hysterical child over the age of 5 when care was being given... even in the darkest moments, such as the father trying to kill the mother. They are scared, and traumatised, but being busy and providing care is many times better for them than to try to engage in conversation or "emotional support" - unless you are trained in pediatric psychology, you may make it much worse, it may create guilt and further trauma ("this person came to talk to me, but that means she's not helping my daddy, if my daddy gets worse, it's my fault because I looked like I needed help").
If an adult survives and is well, the trauma will not be much lived. She might get a phobia of tall places, or a phobia of slipping an falling, but the emotional trauma usually gets washed away if the outcome is positive. I've seen more collected 12 year olds calling for an ambulance for their dead or severely ill parents and requesting help for their parents than grown-arse hysterical adults with not so severe cases.
We don't give enough credit to children. They do have an idea of what is happening, sometimes more than some adults; the reaction of the wife is very poor for someone who has a daughter, for example, while the child staying away and hugging dog instead of making a fuss and getting in the way of treatment is a very healthy and self-coping reaction. Children do respond better to positive actions than they do respond bad to negative actions.
Amazing paramedics, doctors & pilots thank you from South Africa 🇿🇦
I am always impressed by those people managing these kind of stressing situations.
Amazing and frightful. Thank goodness for these well trained medics,
Oh man, I know it's probably shock, but the first guy who amputated his arm was so calm. I would have been a crying mess, knowing that I've lost a limb.
He is most likely in shock, but just appears "calm."
I love how US firefighters and rescue paramedics and UK firefighters and rescue paramedics all have the same demeanor and attitudes. ALL the respect to the men and women who do this
Gosh I cant imagine how frustrating it must be to be allergic to so many different things, things common in every day items and things you dont even know about!! I hope she's able to lessen her attacks, both the severety and the amount..
I had no idea they use the same brand of health monitors and such that we use here in the US-WelchAllyn. Also, well done to the young Army men who stepped up so cheerfully and dutifully to help the fall victim!
We also use WelchAllyn over here (Portugal), but Lifepak is way more prevalent (Zoll is probably the less common, but I know that a lot of US folks like it better).
such wonderful young soldiers. Thank you for your service and your help. You all have a big heart
Wow that poor guy who lost his arm and wrist man I can’t believe he was even talking wow so crazy I pray everyone is alright
Some recognition for the men from the Army ❤️
Sweet little Findlay 🥺 I'm glad the heli ride was a good distraction and not scary for him.
God bless the rescue team and the support they provide to the injured people.. Lots of respect for the team
❤❤
7:48 lmao i thought they burned the food at first XD
How patronizing, telling someone they don’t need to cry.
fr "you don't need to cry, he just fell, open his head up and could have died"
Yeah but people tend to freak out a bit when they see others freak out. As mean as it is, keeping him calm is more important.
that always made me angry like obviously she’s going to cry
@Haitham Ali ???? not everyone knows how to just shut off their emotions in traumatic situations. it’s patronizing either way
There was a one armed guy I used to chat with at my local bar. He was so young. He worked at a factory right out of high school. He had reached in to grab/clear something from his machine (a big press) in the split second the press was up but it slammed down on him. There was no saving the limb due to the crushing pressure of the machine. I always felt so bad for him.
41:10
"...we're halfway there."
I see what you did there. 😜
under appreciated comment...
Ahahahaha
Man I hate seeing children being hurt, always breaks my heart
It's not about you or your heart.
@@shellc6743 damn. Who hurt you?
"Bro... What if...There was like...A limb in my stuffed bear..?"
*"...Nahhh...."*
Yay!!! My favourite show!! Thank you all for what you do. I really want to follow in your footsteps and work in EMS, I'm just not sure which part yet
"oh yeah i'm just gonna give em a does of this ere ketamine" yep something someone says everyday
If my husband fell off a cliff in front of me id be freaking out too.
*These guys really do a great job, so thankful for people like this*
Anyone else felt so bad for the daughter of the man who fell, Rob? I was sitting here going “hopeing someone goes to her so she doesn’t sit all alone. This is traumatizing for the poor girl.” I didn’t see anyone doing it but ofc it was cut clips. I should know with how many times mom has been in an ambulance, it’s something that sticks by you!
Britain is such a beautiful country. I can’t wait to come visit as soon as we can. Greetings from Loveland Colorado. I have worked with plenty of your warriors and will stand with you any day.
I love the wife's attitude ❤️ amazing work
Despite how much everyone makes fun of us Americans for our metric systems, I sure do hear them use inches and miles a lot.....
yeah cause it's the UK and they use both....The rest of the world makes fun of you tho
Thankyou for your extremely American comment... 🤦♀️
that's because Americans, and I am one, complain the most about "not understanding the measurements, and they really need to explain it better!!"
@@hwangnoeul lol..we r in that now!
@@hwangnoeul Lmao you're insecure for some odd reason.....
God bless you emergency medical personnel and kudos to those young soldiers that carried the gentleman that fell.
The woman with anaphylaxis might be reacting to the epi itself. I have extremely nasty to reactions to sulphites, and epi pens have buckets of it in it. I use compounded epi, kept in the freezer. A defrosted one is on my person at all times. Inconvenient, but i Dont have amy rebound reactions with it. And none of the hangover the next day. At my worst i was up to 5 anaphylactic reactions a day. Now its closer to 2-3 per week. I am brand specific to diphenhydramine. A shot of the wrong one will make me SO much worse. I am jumping to conclusions- I'd put money on her having MCAS.
It must be so hard having such terrible allergies 😔
This is soo good to know. Thank you for sharing
MCAS? I have not heard of this. I can't imagine having multiple attacks weekly or even monthly. In April I awoke not being able to draw a whole breath and it was terrifying. Turns out double pneumonia was the culprit. I had no idea and no symptoms so had no idea why I was unable to breathe.
wrap yourself in a bubble ! you could be the bubble " girl ".....We had a bubble boy ! remember him ? he eventually died.
Karen Neill I to thought about MCAS, I also have multiple reactions daily.
Who’s the Prime Minister? O hell, I would be a dead man.
In the UK ? It is Johnson.....a funny looking guy who looks like Trump.
@@linanicolia1363 And kinda acts like him too. Johnson is like a diluted Trump.
@@samiraperi467 It seems every country has its own version of Trump. There's the original, the UK has Boris Johnson, we in The Netherlands have Geert Wilders, etc.
@@coenogo we got the really mild one in Denmark. Lars Løkke Rasmussen(:
Sometimes i think i should’ve studied to become a helicopter instead of a fixed wing pilot. This is one of the coolest flying jobs out there!
@@Queen-we6wz Well, I do identify as an apache attack helicopter ;)
@@Queen-we6wz That used to be a pretty popular meme, maybe I'm getting old 😂
The NHS is a blessing!!!
This show is so intense!
Industrial accidents can happen to anybody at any time. Let's be careful out there. Cheers!
If the proper safety measures are taken, accidents shouldn't happen at all. Of course broken machines can play a part, but if something is broken it shouldn't be neglected it should be tagged out immediately
Reminds me of a case I got a few years back. Working my very first day as a private EMT in a big concert (I was a Fire EMT by a few years then). They are still putting up the structure, so no big stuff should happen, just minor sprains, or someone dropping a box on their foot. At worse, some rigger drops a few metres and bumps his helmeted head on the frame.
The garbage truck comes in, just a municipal car, not related in any way to the venue. Suddenly, trashman loses half his wrist operating the machine and we have to run all the damn way over from the other side of the venue (the bit where the bins were stationed were not part of our hired space). Turns out that that specific part of the machine that can eat your limbs out should have a protective part to prevent that from happening; but since it made a weird noise and needed to be lubed and maintained regularly, some bright mind took the protective part out. Also, I knew that trashman from other minor accidents (he worked in my firehouse area) and he was more often than not drinking a bit too much at lunch.
A sober person wouldn't have lost his wrist. A drunk person operating the machine with the damn protective part wouldn't have lost his wrist. All was wrong that day.
My husband had a stroke about 2015. Air lifted 200 miles away. We had insurance but the bill was still $7000. The trauma hospital was also about $7000 after insurance coverage. I'm lucky to have my husband doing so well.
We're still paying off the $14000.
Despite loosing the hand , from time 6:30 on I kept my fingers crossed so they can find his hand put on ice and be able to reattach , perform the wonders of modern medical surgery , starting with air ambulance quick & professional response.
What an incredible example of how medicine should work.
That ketamine sounds good. Too bad around here it's just folks like Bill Cosby have access to it.
Great to see a Fantastic service like this available for people back home.
When the guy said,"I've fallen in love" this chap too it seriously! Good phrase to say during a time like this.
16:12 is why you wear a seatbelt.
? you are confusing this accident with fast moving machines like cars or planes. It is why we have these seat belts.......no need for protection in factories. Your brain/attention is what counts. You mess up and you loose something.
@@linanicolia1363 ummmm that was a car accident.....
@@Beelzebubby91 Be easy on lina. This is the morning after her date with Bill Cosby.
My daughter died this summer at home from a gash in the same place on her head. She should have dialed 911, but sadly, she’d had a lot to drink and our poor girl bled to death.
How sad. My condolences to you.
Yes, condolences dear.
William Holden, an actor I adored died the same way, fell at home and whacked his head and bled to death, all alone. Alcohol can be evil.
I'm sorry for your loss.
It's always extra painful to watch when small children are involved. :-(
Omg the gash in his head is horrendous
I took medical classes, and they are NOT EASY. Very complex and lots of context. It would be a dream of mine to be a emergency response and paramedic!
13:07 -5 is "bitterly cold"? * laughs in Canadian *
That's absolutely balmy, eh?
I came here just to say the same. I went to Europe this past winter and wandered around with a thin rain jacket on while my Australian companions were wearing parkas, scarves, hats and mitts and kept complaining about how cold it was.
Well, it's actually weird - but, I grew up in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen - and -40°C there is almost better than -10°C in Oslo (Norways capitol) bc of the humidity 🙈
@@dawnj2360 Wow, it almost sounds like it depends on what you're used to! So annoying, people saying ''Oh 40 degrees it's nothing, it's 50 C here'' or ''oh, -5 is nothing, it's -40 C here.''
@@river8760 where i was born was atleast -50/-60
"Deadly industrial accident"
TFW the guy is very much still alive.
Its still deadly, it has the chance of killing you SMH
Dreadly, welcome to UK English.
Deadly definition- "causing or able to cause death."
@@queenkey6002 OH yes. As in the UK Deadly Weapon prison time for possesion of a Boy Scout pocket knife.
Ok but really, if there are any other Americans here, can y'all understand anything the guy said at 14:14
"Paramedic, Tony Wilks knows this could be a difficult case."
Tony: afhh ablt could be trapped afibskjd ubf akjhuf life threatening
If I drink a case of bee I might be able to understand what they're are saying...
All I understood was "trapped"!
Nothing like cutting open open an older mans shirt to reveal a nipple ring.
Rock on 🤘
He had some janky toenails too.
Haha these are always so many legendary doctors on youtube😂 telling these specialists how it should be done... god yall are a silly bunch
its so funny that they're comparing piloting a helicopter to making breakfast haha
I really enjoyed this episode. Thanks !
You're Delta Sierra now, Drip Stand. haha
Now I can imagine more what Prince William was doing. Seems air ambulance is used much more often in the UK than in Canada
Someone is gonna be really freaked out when they come across that dude hand somewhere😂
That breakfast looks really good. Wish I could cook that well. 🍳
Desde Argentina, les mando un saludo AFECTUOSO, a cada uno de los componen este video de EMERGENCIA, y felicitaciones por el profesionalismo demostrado. 👩🚒👩🚒👩🚒🚒🚒🚒🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Being in the US we have hospitals pretty close to most places but we still have life flight choppers. We have them for the most serious cases. I have been sent to a larger hospital after a heart attack. The cost was over $27,000 USD. Saved my life though. I had only left work for about an hour and a half before going back and checking in as a patient. Sounds like these choppers are quite busy.
I wish I couldn't remember who was running my country! I love this show and respect all.
But why is no one comforting the daughter of that man? She looks so scared and confused
Do these people not think when looking for a missing hand? It's inside the machine, obviously. I didn't see anyone even think to look inside that machine.
There’s just something attractive about a competent, self-assured man, performing highly technical work. Especially if he has a beard.
ayyee someone's inlove!
"Don't worry Jon, we're half way there" lmao
The allergic lady should get rid of all curtains and carpet. They hold tons of dust and pollen.
Yorkshire: “minus 5”
Me: *laughs in Canadian*
An hours drive and they sent a helicopter? In Canada most of us would have driven the kid to hospital. My dad had the same injury/situation ( he pulled the table cloth and a teapot fell on him and he had 2nd degree burns all over his torso and back) When he was a toddler and they drove him.
In America a medical emergency helicopter ride can cost up to a quarter million dollars!
Hence why we have insurance.
Woah did healthcare become affordable that’s at least 1m dollars in America
That young boy is the same age as my boy and whenever he gets hurt I always blame myself
6 years ago a Taxi Cab pulled my left leg under the right back wheel. I was getting into the taxi and wasn’t all the way in when he drove off pulling me under the cab. Where I live is in one of the wealthiest counties in Florida. When paramedic arrived I was in shock and my leg had skin and muscle torn off my Achilles tendon was lying on the street and my left ankle was in a position that wasn’t possible. Our paramedics do not carry pain meds. Our ambulances do not carry anything to safely scoop and secure what my leg had on the street. My neighbor found a box and cut the box open to use. Unbelievable. I watch these shows and I can’t believe it. Mind you that was just 6 years ago. I was airlifted to the best trauma center and my experience with their medics was night and day. Pain medicine and we even laughed.
When I see injuries like that my stomach feels kinda weird. Stomach: o my god that hurts so much. And I think that’s what happens in there and sometimes I kinda feel weak but i can walk move and run