It was a last minute rescue! In Aspach, in the Braunau district, a young woman was in danger of suffocating. When rescuers arrived, they also inhaled the toxic gas before the detector on the uniform sounded the alarm. A total of four people are now being treated; the 27-year-old has to go to the pressure chamber in Graz.
The woman’s partner from Innviertel had raised the alarm in the early morning of Epiphany: the 27-year-old was lying unconscious in the apartment they shared.
A Red Cross paramedic team rushed to the scene and initially thought it was an internal illness. Suddenly the CO detectors, which detect dangerous levels of toxic carbon monoxide in the air, went off!
Helpers also in the hospital
The emergency services immediately brought the 27-year-old outside and also brought her partner to safety. “Our emergency services are also being examined at the Ried Hospital because they were also exposed to carbon monoxide,” Christian Hartl, spokesperson for the Upper Austrian Red Cross, explained in response to a “Krone” request.
While the ambulance crew and the partner, who had been in a different room than the 27-year-old, apparently showed no serious symptoms of poisoning, the 27-year-old is considered seriously injured and there is always a danger to life in the room. case of massive CO poisoning. The unconscious person must be treated in a pressure chamber to ‘press’ the gas from the bloodstream. The nearest free-pressure chamber was in Graz on Epiphany. “Due to the difficult weather conditions, a rescue helicopter flight was not possible. The patient is transferred to an intensive care vehicle,” Hartl said.
The reason for the escape of CO2 has not yet been fully elucidated. According to current reports, it is probably a defect in the heating system. As soon as there is new information, we will report this.
Source: Krone
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