Medical team flies to roof fall man (Stanwell Park)
A man’s plunge from a roof landed him unconscious in hospital with a critical head injury following a mishap at Stanwell Park, north of Wollongong, late today.
Ambulance, police and the NRMA CareFlight flying trauma team rushed to the man’s aid following a 000 call just after 6 pm.
The man’s friends told the NRMA CareFlight doctor the 20-year-old man, from Stanwell Park, struck concrete surrounds when he tried to jump from a roof into a swimming pool.
NRMA CareFlight’s helicopter landed in a nearby park to allow the trauma doctor to join ambulance paramedics in treating the man who remained unconscious.
He was given a general anaesthetic and placed on one of NRMA CareFlight’s mobile intensive care modules.
The man was flown to St George Hospital where he remained in a critical but stable condition on arrival.
ENDS: For further information please call NRMA CareFlight spokesman Ian Badham on 0418 245 748.
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