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Herewith medical bona fides of our Managing Director, Russell McLean. This section specifically relates to the start, progression and premature ending of Russell McLean’s police career, following injury whilst doing his duties.
Constable Russ McLean & Sheena McGillivray On The Island of Islay
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During 1994 the deterioration of this reached a point where paraplegia was indicated by the neurological surgeon. So spinal surgery to remove the prolapsed intervertebral disc at L5/S1 was required and completed.
This may seem a bit gruesome, but it does give an interesting insight into what so many folk suffer from: a damaged spine…
^^ Russell McLean MRI Scan of L5/S1 Disc Prolapse ^^
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^^ Russell McLean MRI Scan of L5/S1 Disc Prolapse ^^
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^^ Russell McLean MRI Scan of L5/S1 Disc Prolapse ^^
Copyright Owned by Russ McLean CC BY-SA 4.0 Public Domain Use of This Image Is Permitted For Educational Purposes: Click Here.
In 1994, McLean had moved down from his home on Davaar Island, near to the Mull of Kintyre in Argyll to London for recovery and new employment purposes.
Principally to earn sufficient capital funds to restart a ferry service back home between Argyll, in Scotland and Antrim in Northern Ireland. The reason being to help improve the fragile economies on either side of the North Channel.
Hence the surgery was performed at a hospital proximate to London…
^^ MRI Scan of L5/S1 Disc Prolapse: Patient: Russ McLean ^^
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Unfortunately, a subsequent accident at Felixstowe, Suffolk, three years after this successful surgery resulted in a fall from a 2-storey loft hatch in his new home.
This was during a move out of London and led to the good surgical work completed by the neurosurgeon, Dr Sharp in July 1994, being severely undone.
The subsequent damage contained a higher risk of paraplegia were Dr Sharp to go in a second time.
As a result, severe spinal disability was diagnosed and by 1999 was deemed permanent:
Insofar as operating through scar tissue from the earlier spinal adhesions and surgery would make paraplegia. That was the view of Dr Sharp’s colleagues: a significantly more probable outcome in the circumstances.
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Company Director Russell McLean
Cumulative Injury Details
(i). Injury to constable McLean’s spine whilst on single officer security detail at the G-BGPC aircraft crash and sawing the tail section off of the downed aircraft in an AAIB assist.
(ii). Injury during Strathclyde Police service and constable McLean rescuing a waterlogged casualty from the local harbour.
(iii). Spinal injury/deterioration during a remote helicopter casualty evacuation. The emergency was overstretched due to severe weather conditions. Failure to lift the casualty onto the hovering med-evac rescue helicopter would have severely reduced the casualty’s chances of survival.
(iv). Spinal injury deterioration from a casualty choking to death through pulmonary aspiration leading to asphyxia. The casualty was wedged in a position that had rendered him incapable of exiting. Then after cyanosis was witnessed on the patients face and hands, the casualty had become unconscious. The casualty was safely extracted via the one-officer patrol. The patient survived.
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Police Officer McLean’s Review
When asked at interview about these disabling injuries that led to spinal surgery, McLean answered:-
“The police duties have taken theirs toll. But Strathclyde Police service has given me far, far more than it has ever taken.
Besides, when I signed my call-up papers for police service after having applied for a job as a police officer, the risks of life, death and injury were very clearly explained.
I have no regrets.
Indeed, the way life worked out since service as a police officer has been profoundly interesting and hopefully even a broken cop can be of some use.
The period of my life in the job was a privilege and one for which I am intensely grateful.
Russ McLean At Tulliallan Police College
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Further narrative and perspective to assist with understanding these events and subsequent career path are provided in this social media excerpt…
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