martinm
05-22-2005, 04:47 PM
At 1820hours today, my crew was paged out for a call to "child trapped in bath" call at house a few minutes from the station.
On arrival, we found the ambulance service already parked up with the crew at the top of the stairs, and a lot, and I do mean a lot, of screaming coming from the bathroom.
On looking in, we found a 5 year old boy who was indeed, trapped in the bath...he was trapped by his mouth, which was hooked over the spout of the (thankfully) cold tap. He had apparently decided to get a drink of water from the tap, and had put his mouth fully over the tap before trying to turn it on. Unfortunately for him, he managed to hook the tap spout behind his teeth and under his tongue, and in his panic seemed to have frozen and could not get himself back off.
We thought we would be able to ease him out from the tap, beut he was in so much pain, the paramedics had to given him a shot of morphine, whilst we dismantled the bath side and disconnected the tap from the pipe and lifted it and him vertically. All in all it took about 30 mins of gentle twisting with a spanner to loosen the nut on the tap and ease him up. To our relief, he does'nt seem to have come off too badly, apart from some cuts and scrapes and a big, big fright.
None of the crew, nor the paramedics hace ever been to a job quite like this one.
On arrival, we found the ambulance service already parked up with the crew at the top of the stairs, and a lot, and I do mean a lot, of screaming coming from the bathroom.
On looking in, we found a 5 year old boy who was indeed, trapped in the bath...he was trapped by his mouth, which was hooked over the spout of the (thankfully) cold tap. He had apparently decided to get a drink of water from the tap, and had put his mouth fully over the tap before trying to turn it on. Unfortunately for him, he managed to hook the tap spout behind his teeth and under his tongue, and in his panic seemed to have frozen and could not get himself back off.
We thought we would be able to ease him out from the tap, beut he was in so much pain, the paramedics had to given him a shot of morphine, whilst we dismantled the bath side and disconnected the tap from the pipe and lifted it and him vertically. All in all it took about 30 mins of gentle twisting with a spanner to loosen the nut on the tap and ease him up. To our relief, he does'nt seem to have come off too badly, apart from some cuts and scrapes and a big, big fright.
None of the crew, nor the paramedics hace ever been to a job quite like this one.