The condition of the 10-year-old American boy who sustained a traumatic head injury after falling from a golf cart at Sherkston Shores Beach Resort and Campground Monday night remained unknown late Tuesday.
Despite several calls by The Tribune to Women and Children?s Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., where the boy was transported, an update on his status has yet to be released.
Port Colborne Fire and Emergency Services and Niagara EMS were dispatched to the private Port Colborne resort at about 7:10 p.m. Niagara Regional Police were not called to the scene.
Niagara EMS communications supervisor Andre Marcotte said the boy, who was visiting the resort from Buffalo, was standing on a moving golf cart when the incident occurred. The cart was moving through the resort grounds when it took a sharp turn and the youngster fell out, Marcotte said.
Witnesses, he added, indicated the boy hit his head ?multiple times? during the fall.
?He was unconscious when we got there and still unconscious en route to the hospital. There was obvious trauma to his head.?
Initial reports from EMS indicated the boy struck his head on a concrete surface.
Sherkston Shores general manager John O?Brien said the golf cart was being driven by a woman, though he did not indicate her relationship to the victim.
Golf carts are a popular mode of transportation at the resort, which has speed limits posted throughout the property. Security patrols the area to help enforce those limits, O?Brien said, stressing the importance of guest safety at the Lake Erie campground.
O?Brien praised emergency officials who arrived on scene quickly Monday and left for Buffalo hospital almost immediately with the young patient.
While an informal agreement has been in place for decades, a formal partnership was created about a year and a half ago that allows Niagara paramedics to transport patients across the border for treatment.
It?s a joint effort between Niagara EMS, Erie County Medical Center, Women and Children?s Hospital, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Centre for Paramedic Education and Research, and Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
The closest Ontario trauma centre is in Hamilton, but, depending on where the emergency occurs, it cannot always be easily accessed, Marcotte said. This is why the partnership was formally put in place.
There are guidelines set to help paramedics determine whether they need to head across the border or can get their patient to an Ontario trauma centre, he said.
If the ambulance can get to a Buffalo hospital within 30 minutes and the injury meets triage guidelines put in place through the agreement, the patient can be brought directly to the U.S. and treatment is covered by OHIP.
Border officials are alerted when an emergency is underway and a lane cleared for the ambulance to make its way through. Paperwork is faxed over by Niagara EMS that allows the ambulance to pass through without stopping.
Nine patients have been transferred for treatment over the border so far this year.
maryanne.firth@sunmedia.ca
Twitter: @mfirthTribune
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Source: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2013/07/16/boy-hit-head-multiple-times-in-fall-from-golf-cart
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