Fallen During Remembrance

Filed in Recent News by April 25, 2017

THE warm weather during today’s ANZAC day ceremony caused several people in the crowd gathered in Scone to faint.

Corporal Ben Walters and paramedic Melinda Walters tending to people who had fainted at the ANZAC Day ceremony.

Corporal Ben Walters and paramedic Melinda Walters tending to people who had fainted at the ANZAC Day ceremony.

Corporal Ben Waters left his post during the ceremony to assist some young school children who had fainted and provide support to local paramedic Melinda Jenkins.

There were a total of six paediatric patients and two adult males treated by local ambulance, with one child being transported to hospital for further monitoring.

Doc Milton who led the Aberdeen ANZAC ceremony reminded the crowd gathered that there was no shame in sitting during the ceremony and local ambulance agree.

“Typically the reason we faint is because there is not enough blood flow to the brain, which can be caused by low blood pressure, so it is important to drink plenty of water if you know you are going to be standing for a long period especially in the sun,” said Melinda Jenkins.

“The biggest impact we had here today was the sun and when you are standing in it for some time people can faint, so it is important that if you start to feel unwell that you sit down somewhere safe and ask someone around you for help,” she said.

“Thankfully the two gentlemen who were unwell today were lowered to the ground by people near them and that is the best thing you can do,”

“It’s the fall from fainting that we worry about and in children it may mean they bite their tongue or their teeth go through their lips, but at any age the biggest risk is if you hit your head which in some cases could even cause a brain bleed and be fatal,”

“In elderly we also worry about them breaking their hips,”

“Children are often more susceptible to faint because they don’t recognise the feeling of pins and needles, dizziness or neasuea and understand they may be about to faint; they also don’t have the capacity to hold as much fluid in their bodies as compared to an adult,

Local paramedics Melinda Jenkins and Mitchell Beaman managed most of the patients, with back up from Murrurundi arriving during the ceremony and a car on standby from Muswellbrook.

 

 

 

 

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