Rescue – Dalby Forest – 14th October;12:30 – 51/2023
While on our annual medical training weekend in the Dalby Forest visitor centre the team were alerted by the forest rangers to a mountain biker who had taken a fall from his bike sustaining a penetrating injury to his thigh.
He was reported to be close to where the red and blue routes split at the top of the ascent from the visitor centre car park (almost in sight of where we were training).
Quickly on scene we were met by him laid on the side of the track with his riding partner applying pressure to his wound. Casualty carers assessed his condition, bandaged the wound and treated for the effect of cold before helping him onto a stretcher and a short carry out to a team vehicle.
Once there he was assessed by one of out team doctors as being fit to be transported to A and E in his own vehicle so we helped him off the stretcher and transported the pair and their bikes back to a camp site at the edge of the forest before they set off to a local hospital for definitive medical care.
