Air ambulance lands in Kesgrave to treat patient in cardiac arrest

Emergency services including the air ambulance were called out to an incident in Kesgrave this afternoon.

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust received a call at midday today to a road off Main Road in Kesgrave, to a report of a man who had collapsed.

A rapid response vehicle, ambulance crew, ambulance officer and Essex Air Ambulance were sent to the scene.

The medics treated a man, believed to be in his 70s, who had gone into cardiac arrest.

The patient was taken by land ambulance to Ipswich Hospital in a critical condition.