| Release #: 11-07 |
| Release date: November 13, 2003 |
| Contact: ENS Eric Willis |
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY |
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Coast Guard helicopter crew medevacs head trauma patient |
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San Juan, Puerto Rico - A Coast Guard helicopter crew was launched yesterday evening from Air Station Borinquen in Aguadilla to transport a seriously injured bicycle accident victim from the Culebra Medical Center in Culebra (CDT) to Centro Medico for emergency medical treatment. At approximately 7:40 p.m. Wednesday evening, the Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center in San Juan received a request from the CDT in Culebra about a 50-year-old man who required emergency medical transportation after receiving a serious head injury from a bicycle accident. Police and Aero-Med helicopters were not available to transport the patient. A Coast Guard flight surgeon determined that the patient should be immediately transported to obtain a CAT-scan and medical treatment that was not available at the CDT. The patient was transferred to Culebra Airport via ambulance then airlifted by the Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew and safely transported to Isla Grande airport at 10:30 p.m. where an awaiting ambulance then transferred the patient to Centro Medico in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
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