Elderly man flown to hospital after fall in Spennymoor


AN elderly man was flown to hospital after falling from a garden chair and hitting his head yesterday. The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to Spennymoor, County Durham, at 5.30pm, where a 78-year-old man had fallen asleep on a garden chair and fell off, hitting his head on a patio. He suffered a serious head injury and the GNAAS doctor and paramedic crew gave the patient a blood transfusion at the scene before he was flown to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough within 10 minutes where he arrived in a critical condition..

AN elderly man was flown to hospital after falling from a garden chair and hitting his head yesterday.

The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to Spennymoor, County Durham, at 5.30pm, where a 78-year-old man had fallen asleep on a garden chair and fell off, hitting his head on a patio.

He suffered a serious head injury and the GNAAS doctor and paramedic crew gave the patient a blood transfusion at the scene before he was flown to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough within 10 minutes where he arrived in a critical condition.

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