Critical Care Responders

Imagine the worst medical scenario you can. Now imagine it happening without warning. You’re miles from a critical care facility. Your condition is on the brink of significantly worsening if you don’t receive urgent medical attention. You need more than the care that a regular ambulance crew can provide. There’s no time to transport you to hospital. Life-saving intervention is needed. It’s needed now.

This is a reality for the patients our Critical Care Responders attend to every day.

Our highly qualified volunteer Critical Care Responders specialise in delivering rapid, advanced treatments, often in locations which are miles away from the specialist hospital facilities the patient needs. For the people, they give up their time to save lives through their selfless work with LIVES, they are literally a lifeline.

• Providing procedural sedation at the roadside to straighten a badly broken leg and restore blood flow.
• Working as part of a critical care team to put a patient into a medically induced coma and manage their airway to protect their brain or allow better treatment of a critically ill patient.
• Undertake surgical procedures in the community, such as opening a chest to stop bleeding after a stabbing.