I was tipped around 1:20 am Saturday morning that 2 people fell 10 to 12 feet off a retaining wall on 9th Street just west of Emery in Lawrence and one of them was in pretty bad shape.
Lawrence/Douglas County EMS said that one of the victim's condition was critical- the other in serious condition. An attempt was made to fly-in a medical helicopter but the choppers weren't flying because of "low visibilities."
Both patients were taken to Lawrence Memorial hospital- with the critical patient "a 23-year-old female"- later transferred by L/DC-EMS to K.U. Med Center.
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Why do these small town services not transport direct to a trauma center? The whole reason we have trauma routing criteria, why we have ATLS and ITLS, is to encourage identification and rapid transport to a designated trauma center.
I don't know the whole story, so I can't fault these medics for what they did, but it makes me wonder in the larger sense. I hear it all the time, not necessarily Lawrence, but a lot of these small services.
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