Man Hit In The Chest By A 20K Log Struggles To Breath | Helicopter ER 

What a man ! He took it like a champ. When he said " yeah its alright " it was obvious he wasnt ,he was just tryinh his best to keep it together and be strong and just do what he was asked

Absolutely dedicated incredible staff. So calm and reassuring and professional. I hope Trevor made a full recovery. I felt so sorry for him, he looked in so much pain.

My dad, 63, was painting, fell off ladders and went right onto a bannister, broke 3 ribs. He'd covered himself in paint, so stripped off and got into clean clothes, cleaned up as much of the mess as he could in the pain, walked to the bus stop, got the bus home, walked upstairs, had a shower, then as soon as he sat on the bed to put underwear on he couldn't move, the excruciating pain became too much, and from there an ambulance had to be called. The older generation are just absolute machines. Meanwhile, my mum was fretting more over the fact they were getting new carpet getting put in the next day and needed to take the old carpet up still and move the furniture out. Only at that point did she call me and my sister to help. We sorted that whilst my mum sorted the ambo out 🤣

Oh god that’s one of my worst fears because my dad’s a forester as well.Hoping he recovers!

I wish him a speedy recovery 🙏

Looks painful just by watching this video, hopes he recovers well !

Thank God for these skilled emergency team, and helicopter crew, that will help so much for there patient...

I once broke one rib coughing from a very bad cold and never forgotten the pain from that never mind the trauma this poor man has gone through.

Many kudos to all the emergency services - they all deserve a payrise !!

Yes, must breath, really important

What a strong man, helped my amazing staff. Although I wish these clips had a follow up of the outcome

He only had severe internal and external bruising...took months to recover

I hope he has a speedy recovery. Merry Christmas Really.❤️🙂⚘️🎅🤶.

Rib injuries are brutal

I thought it was a 20,000 pound log

Hope he's feeling better now

For people wondering about the outcome, Trevor luckily didn't suffer anything more than some serious internal & external bruising. It took a month or two, but he fully recovered & went back to work. Also some clarification, given there's a number of comments asking why they didn't immobilise Trevor's spine and/or use a backboard - this is a shortened clip from the hour-long TV show & unfortunately they edited out some important information. The doctor cleared Trevor's spine clinically in the field - it's not all shown or explicitly mentioned, but I assume it was done using the NEXUS criteria. And both the air ambulance & the ground ambulance had scoop stretchers, but they chose not to use it because of both respiratory concerns and the patient couldn't tolerate being laid flat (even when they loaded him into the helicopter, they kept him in a semi-upright position which isn't very common). Edit: fixed typo

Wow, that’s awful. Poor guy

what after watching all that you didn't say what happened !!!!

*patient screaming in agony* "was that hurting?"

Surprised the evac crew didn't have a litter to carry him to the chopper.

Poor guy!

Does anyone know what was the prognosis? Did he have cracked ribs etc

We want this kind of healthcare in India...

Went to go watch the full episode to find out what happened...the app required is not available for me. Disappointing!

Ye..ouch!

He looks good for 74!

I think a broken rib or 2? What was the outcome

Updates after videos please

Me too! Won't watch if you don't tell use what happened 😮

They don't have a stretcher for the guy?

So what’s the result?

The only time here in the USA we could get any pain relief with Morphine is when we are dying . No Morphine if your pain level level below 10 and anything above 10 your dead .

Guys....full episode is on youtube! Lol

I hate struggling to breath

What is absolutely mental to me 80% of the US is rural like this and it is $25,000 for life flight. They use it is the UK for broken ribs after making him walk on his own?

Give him something to bite down on at least.

20 Kg, not 20K (20,000)

I like how this guy is more dramatic then the guys who lose their legs

In my opinion, working as a paramedic, to transport him the way they did was absolutely wrong. Moving a patient like this and making them walk whilst they are complaining about back pain which makes a back injury fairly likely is not great. Getting him onto a scoop stretcher and carrying him to the helicopter would have been safer and required less movement. It also would have spared him of the pain he experienced here. Sure, it would take longer and a lot of man power, but there was an ambulance crew on scene and the pilot as well...

A 20k log 😂

For those who want to watch everything just type helicopter er season 8 episode 12

i would never had make him walk and go in the van? ?? surely carry him on the strecher there was enough of you, ....ffs all the gear no idea....