Car Accidents

Car Accidents

On average, five people die every day on the road in the UK and many more are injured.

UK road deaths dropped for the first time in eight years during 2020 as coronavirus saw a reduction in traffic levels. In 2020, 1,516 people were killed on UK roads. Ambulance response times for incidents have been rising in recent months, averaging over 9 minutes in December.

Car and road traffic accidents can cause a range of different impact injuries. Most UK police classify road accident injuries into five categories. The most serious category is fatality where at least one casualty is killed. The others are:

• Slight- covers injuries such as neck whiplash, shock, bruising, soft tissue sprains and strains plus shallow cuts, grazing and abrasions.

• Less serious- deep cuts, hands, arm or collarbone fractures plus foot, ankle or lower leg fractures and minor head injuries.

• Moderately serious-chest injuries, deeply penetrating wounds and thigh or pelvis fracture.

• Very serious- broken neck or spine, severe head, check or crush injury with loss of consciousness or breathing difficulty. Also included are all internal injuries and multiple severe injuries combined with a loss of consciousness.

How Coremed can help casualties involved in road accidents

The Coremed is a lightweight patient monitoring device which can be used no matter the location giving patients data in real time. Coremed records ECG, Capnography, BP, Pulse Oximetry, Heart Rate and Temperature allowing for an overall view of the patient status.

Car accidents can be very dangerous and life threatening and patients can deteriorate quickly, the Coremed device provides clinicians with real time clinical observations. The device is used in conjunction with the Metix remote monitoring platform, which provides a dashboard to manage users and Coremed device. This allows first responders to focus on providing care rather than manually taking data and scribbling recordings periodically. The patient data that is captured is stored on Coremed and can be exported in print ready formats, reports can also be sent straight to the hospital. These reports, which can be generated ahead of time before a patient’s arrival to A&E cut down on patient handover time, provide clinicians with an ongoing in-depth clinical assessment that reduces administration time and will help with overall triaging.