The aircrew conducted a medevac on an offshore platform and safely transferred the person to medical personnel at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Houston photo.
HOUSTON — A Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65E Dolphin aircrew medevac an oil rig crewmember 88 nm offshore Freeport, Texas. Sunday, July 9, 2023.
Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston command center watchstanders received a notification at 5:46 a.m. that a 50-year-old oil rig crewman was experiencing symptoms of cardiac arrest and needed medical assistance.
Coast Guard watchstanders consulted with the duty flight surgeon, who inmediately recommended the medical evacuation.
Watchstanders launched a Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin Short-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew to conduct the medevac and a Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew to provide communications cover in flight.
The Coast Guard rescue helicopter aircrew conducted a medevac on an oil rig offshore Freeport and safely transferred the person to medical personnel at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Houston photo.
The MH-65 Dolphin SRR helicopter aircrew landed aboard the oil rig, embarked the man and transferred him to the emergency medical services (EMS) personnel awaiting at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
The patient was reportedly in stable condition.
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