A cement mixer truck overturned at the south entrance ramp of National Highway 1 Xinying Interchange and the Tainan City Fire Department and the Liuying Chimei medical team worked together to initiate Tainan's first "pre-hospital on-site blood transfusion" and successfully rescued the trapped driver.
A cement mixer truck overturned at noon on the 8th at the south entrance ramp of the Xinying Interchange on National Highway 1. The front of the truck was severely deformed and the driver was trapped. He was facing a crisis of blood loss and shock. Tainan City Fire Department ambulance personnel rushed to the scene for rescue. Medical staff from Liuying Chimei Hospital also came to the scene with blood and initiated Tainan's first "pre-hospital on-site blood transfusion". After nearly 2 hours, the injured was successfully rescued and sent to the hospital for treatment.
The accident occurred at around 12:05 noon. The Tainan City Fire Department received the report and dispatched 9 vehicles and 19 people to rescue. After the rescuers arrived at the scene, they found that the cement truck was lying on its side, the cabin was severely squeezed and deformed, and the driver was tightly trapped by the broken steel plate and could not move. The on-site commander After determining that the rescue operation would take a long time and that the injured person was in critical condition, a vehicle was immediately dispatched to pick up the emergency medical team from Liuying Chimei Hospital for on-site support. The on-site ambulance personnel simultaneously penetrated into the narrow gap in the vehicle cabin to use a tourniquet to stop the patient's bleeding and quickly established an intravenous infusion channel (IV).
After the medical team arrived at the scene, they considered that the injured had signs of shock and was accompanied by severe pain. The doctor guided them to initiate a rare "pre-hospital on-site blood transfusion" to maintain effective circulating blood volume. They also gave the injured analgesics to relieve severe pain and physiological pressure and stabilize the injured's vital signs before escaping. Special search personnel used sabotage equipment to continue to prop up heavy steel beams, and successfully rescued the driver at 2 p.m. After the rescue team was rescued, doctors guided the rescue team to immediately operate "POCUS focused ultrasound examination" to accurately check whether there were fatal risks such as internal bleeding or pneumothorax in the chest and abdominal cavity, and successfully sent the injured who were conscious and whose vital signs had stabilized to the hospital for treatment.
The Tainan City Fire Department said that this rescue operation highly demonstrated the ultimate integration of pre-hospital emergency rescue, extending the critical emergency rescue chain to the front line of the disaster, perfectly demonstrating the high-level rescue capabilities of seamlessly integrating medical and emergency services.
Under the on-site guidance of doctors, the ambulance personnel immediately performed "POCUS focused ultrasound examination" on the injured person who escaped from the trap.
