Islay Hospital benefits from Oldrey family donation

Everyone at Islay Hospital is most grateful to Mrs Oldrey and her family who provided the impetus and finance for the purchase of an invaluable hi-tech medical training manikin for Islay after the death of her husband. The Oldrey family have been spending their holidays on Islay for the past ten years but sadly Dr Oldrey became unwell while here. He was initially treated by paramedics at the scene then by doctors and staff at Islay hospital from where he was transferred to the mainland by medi-vac. Dr Oldrey unfortunately did not recover from his illness. The family donated £1,300 to the fund for a new manikin for Islay & Jura, as the current version does not cover the advanced skills and techniques that the medical staff has now acquired over the years. At the time of the donation, plans were being put in place as how to raise funds for such a machine so we cannot thank the Oldrey family enough as their donation was the catalyst to push forward the fund raising. The manikin can be used by medics, paramedics, nursing staff and ambulance crews for practising a bewildering number of procedures including limb immobilisation, intubation, laryngeal Mask, oropharyngeal airway, nasopharyngeal airway, intramuscular injection, needle thoracocentesis and needle cricothroidotomy training. Continue reading...
The £4,000 machine, which was also supported financially by the Mactaggart Third Fund, can reproduce over 1000 different cardiac rhythms for analysis and also provides defibrillation practice. The manikin can be programmed to deliver the bewildering number of scenarios that medics are faced with in the many different conditions extant in an emergency and it weighs in at around 60kgs which is much more lifelike than previous training manekins. There is an option to add more features with the purchase of different kits e.g. a burns pack, trauma pack or a blood pressure monitor. The manekin also produces real life sounds illustrating breathing difficulties, vomiting, pain, bowel sounds, and will even answer questions! Staff from the ambulance service and the hospital and would also like to thank Mr Sandy MacTaggart and the Mactaggart Third Fund who donated a further £1000 and Dr Moray Grigor and the community of Jura who donated £250.00 The balance was found from Islay hospital funds.

This story was published with kind permission of the Ileach Newspaper.

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