Flight Medic: Cancun, MX-Bowlingreen, KY

in #travel7 years ago (edited)

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Learjet 35 getting fueled up pre-flight and our Captain.

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Ready for take off! Approx. 1 1/2 flight time from Miami-Cancun.

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Arrival at Cancun hospital ICU. Patient is a 59 year old female: Acute hypertensive crisis also has psychiatric history and a language barrier which didn't help she had been intubated three days prior and extubated only a few hours before your arrival. This troubled me because there is not a lot of space to do a procedure like intubation on that Learjet. Thankfully the patient was stable enough without me having to re-intubate prior to our deprture.

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Enroute back to Cancun airfield via local ambulance.

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Arrival in Bowlingreen, KY transferred patient into local EMS unit.

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Patient transferred to local hospital ICU.

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Our Captain had hit his service hours so we stayed in Bowlingreen the night and ate at this amazing restaurant called "The White Squirrel" sorry I didnt take pictures of the food. It was southern style cuisine with a modern twist and excellent locally brewed beer. Sorry I didn't take any pictures of the food 😩

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The next morning at the Bowlingreen airfield they had a tour going on with some very old WW2 and Vietnam era air craft.

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