Last night’s (July 8) Southern 100 practice sessions were cancelled due to capacity issues at Noble’s Hospital.
Prior to the commencement of yesterday’s practice session, an assessment was undertaken during a formal ‘Safe To Start Huddle’ which was attended by representatives of all departments who would be asked to respond in the case of a trauma case being admitted.
Manx Care says these include the Emergency Department (ED), Orthopaedics, Operating Theatres, Air Ambulance, the Isle of Man Ambulance Service as well as the site management team.
Prior to Racing
At the time of assessment, it was felt the hospital was ready for practicing at the Southern 100 to commence, despite ED being extremely busy and the Intensive Care Unit having one bed available – Manx Care says this was communicated to race organisers.
Between the huddle taking place and the commencement of practicing, two extremely unwell patients were admitted to ED via Ambulance, both requiring a full Medical Emergency Team to treat them.
Despite this increased activity across Noble’s, the team felt that we were still capable to respond to casualties coming from the Southern 100.
Capacity Issues
Following the red flag incident and the receipt of two trauma cases were inbound from the first practice session, one of which was extremely unwell, this required the formation of two major trauma teams to care for them.
An overall assessment was undertaken of workload within ED and across the wider hospital and whether Manx Care would be able to safely care for one or more trauma cases should there be another incident on the S100 course.
The discussion between the Executive Director on call (Oliver Radford) and ED Consultant In Charge was that the hospital wouldn’t be able to safely care for another trauma case alongside the other patients in ED requiring urgent care.
As a result Manx Care took the decision to request from the race organisers that no further practicing take place yesterday evening due to the situation in the hospital.
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