Next week is Farm Safety Week, and yesterday, September 16th, an Anderson county farmer experienced a great hazard on the farm. He was trapped in a grain cart. The call came in at 11:37 in the morning and law enforcement and fire crews were on scene quickly. Recognizing the patient was experiencing a life-threatening emergency, they immediately applied a tourniquet to control severe bleeding. A few minutes later an advanced life support ambulance arrived along with a rescue truck. Together law enforcement, EMS and rescue crews developed and executed a plan to safely extricate the man from the grain cart. Just before noon, he was freed and taken to the Anderson County Hospital Heli-Pad. The air ambulance arrive a few minutes later and transported the patient to a level 1 trauma care unit in the Kansas City metro. All this in an hour and 26 minutes after the initial 911 call.
EMS Director, Troy Armstrong says the decision to apply a tourniquet in the first critical minutes, combined with the rapid extrication and advance care by EMS made the rescue a success.
