Thankathon
On 15 March 2025 we celebrated our 35th birthday.
That's 35 years of lifesaving missions, none of which would be possible without you.
Our Charity Thankathon has been kindly supported by Bath based Ralph Allen Press.
Our impact in 2024
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On scene, the critical care paramedics and pre-hospital doctors that form our aircrew – alongside the line pilots – were called upon to undertake more surgical procedures, blood transfusions and pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia than ever before.
Below you can find a snapshot of the type of procedures being carried out by Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance Charity's aircrew.
Procedural sedations
Last year the team carried out 55 procedural sedations, which enables our crews to perform a variety of therapeutic interventions to reduce pain and suffering following trauma.
Advanced airway management
127 patients received crucial advanced airway management, allowing our crews to maintain and open a patient's airway.
Pre-hospital emergency anesthesia
The number of patients treated with pre-hospital emergency anesthesia went up by 17.5% to 68 last year.
This is a vital yet high-risk intervention allows our team to gain control of a patient's physiology following serious traumatic or medical incidents.
Elsewhere, our aircrew supported 32 patients with blood transfusions, carried out 10 surgical interventions and on 80 occasions the team used the LUCAS machine to deliver CPR.
During 2024 our doctors performed 12 regional nerve blocks to patients, which is a skill our critical care paramedics will be able to undertake going forwards as the charity continues to enhance its clinical operations.