Air Hospital - anyone watching?

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Channel 4 now

am watcing

Got it on now.

Good grief.

What an amazing job they're doing. Those poor soldiers.

Yes me! I know most of them, used to work with them.

Damn. Such horrible injuries. They can land in Germany if someone gets really bad.

yes i am. they are doing amazing jobs.

Did you do inflight work McDreamy?

OMG, how awful those injuries.

Yes I did but I wasn't a member of the CCAST team, these guys are intensive care nurses and anaesthetists. I did the less serious aeromeds.

Its heartbreaking.

I've worked with Neil a lot.

Vital, absolutley vital jobs.

Bloody hell, that kind of work is hard enought without the extra pressures of landing, turbulance etc.

It's the noise that's the hardest to deal with, you can't communicate with each other very well. Makes life really difficult.

I did maternity air ambulance transfers, and some of the women were very unwell but this is a completely new level.

And then of course, there is the risk that someone will try to shoot you out of the sky.

My ex had to travel in those, too, and he says they are also freezing cold.

Absolutely expat - terrifying.

My ex h's dad was a fighter pilot in VietNam. He had some hair-raising tales! Particularly, something I hadn't considered, is that they had to do the mission and drop their payload or it might not be possible to land safely.

He once flew almost an entire tour (that's a year in the US) with a bloke who was safe as houses. Then one mission he freaked out! Ex FIL was about 24 years old. He said they were dropping in altitude, getting shot at, the guy was going Section 8/crazy, vomitting into his mask, and they still had to get rid of the payload.

They are either freezing cold or boiling hot!!

And we're only seeing what the CCAST team are bringing home, there are planes full of less serious but still significantly injured service-men also being brought home. It's so sad

CCAST are doing a fantastic job. Very interesting documentary.

It's changed so much since I was doing aeromed 7 years ago. You used to get a really seriously injured patient every now and again. The CCAST team were occasionally called if they were really bad but now these guys are constantly flying back and forth.

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