Two-year-old boy found face down in dam (Londonderry)
While flying back from another incident late this afternoon, the CareFlight rapid response critical care team received a report of a toddler in a dam.
The helicopter crew were in the process of airlifting a relatively stable patient from a motor vehicle crash in Wentworth Falls to Nepean Hospital when, at 5:15pm, the urgent call came in to divert to the reported drowning.
The two-year-old boy had been missing for 10 minutes on the rural property in Nutt Road.
When his parents found him in the dam they dragged him out and immediately started CPR and called 000.
The CareFlight crew landed in the paddock next to the fenced dam and transferred their stable patient to a waiting ambulance. At the same time the CareFlight doctor worked with Ambulance paramedics to stabilise the toddler.
The child was in a critical condition, in and out of consciousness, and required urgent medical care. The CareFlight doctor placed the boy in an induced coma, intubated him and took over his breathing.
The CareFlight doctor travelled with the child by road ambulance to Westmead Children’s Hospital where he remains in a serious but stable condition.
For further information please contact Cameron Wade at the CareFlight office on 9687 1111.
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