{"id":25401,"date":"2017-12-15T21:41:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/12\/15\/air-force-medical-team-evacuates-sailor-wounded-by-ied-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:02:57","slug":"air-force-medical-team-evacuates-sailor-wounded-by-ied-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/2017\/12\/15\/air-force-medical-team-evacuates-sailor-wounded-by-ied-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force medical team evacuates sailor wounded by IED in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blast from an improvised explosive device tore his trachea, damaged his cervical spine, resulted in an open eye injury and fractured his tibia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 34-year-old sailor was left with a 2 percent survival rate following the detonation of the IED he was attempting to clear during an operation in Syria, according to <a href=\"\/TEMP-LINK-TEMP\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\">Air Mobility Command<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The severity of his injuries \u201cwere massive,\u201d said Maj. Joshua Hamilton, a Critical Care Air Transport Team physician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany of us were shocked he survived the initial injury,\u201d he added.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamilton and other members of the Critical Care Team began performing an emergency thoracotomy \u2014 a surgical procedure to open the chest cavity \u2014 in order to manually massage the sailor\u2019s heart while they waited for a C-17 from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critical Care Teams consist of physicians, intensive care nurses and respiratory therapists. Together, they\u2019re able to turn regular medical transport flights into intensive care units, increasing the chance a wounded service member survives their injuries.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur team receives specialty training to allow us to provide critical care delivery to patients in austere environments,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cWe are able to arrive at a location and assemble ICU level support, as well as provide intensive care in the air throughout the flight, and deliver the patient to other facilities for ongoing care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maj. Andrew Vandertoorn from the 452nd Air Mobility Wing, March Air Reserve Base, California, commanded the C-17 performing the air evacuation.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt the time, we were preparing for a contingency mission to Al Udeid Air Base,\u201d Vandertoorn said. \u201cWhen the crew got the call, we sprung right into action. We knew how serious this mission was and started making the right decisions to make this mission a success.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the patient was in the air, the severity of his injuries required a unique flight plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were restricted to a cabin altitude of 5,000 feet, meaning we had to maintain an altitude of 28,000 feet,\u201d Vandertoorn said. \u201cThis meant we burnt more fuel, were subjected to different routings and encountered more adverse weather.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mid-flight, diplomatic concerns prevented the crew from transgressing Turkish airspace. They were forced to skirt around the Black Sea, avoiding Turkish authorities altogether, according to Capt. Tim McCammon, who was coordinating flights between Germany and Baghdad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere was some discrepancy between our actual diplomatic clearance number for overfly and the one given to the Turkish authorities,\u201d McCammon said. \u201cThis was a frustrating ordeal because we knew this mission was extremely time-sensitive and could literally mean the difference between life and death of a service member.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the aircrew navigated international airspace, the medical team kept working on the patient. A specialized tool \u2014 called an Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation pump \u2014 was used to keep the oxygen circulating throughout the patient\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cECMO provides support to the body and compensates for lungs that are not adequate to bring oxygen into the body or take away the carbon dioxide the body produces,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cEven with the restricted cabin altitude of 5,000 feet, without ECMO, the patient would not have survived the trip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The level of care Hamilton and his team were able to provide is \u201csomething that can happen in no other military force on the planet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis mission embodies the hopes we all have as we chose military medicine over civilian practice,\u201d he added. \u201cTo serve those injured protecting our country is the highest calling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the long hours, and brutal conditions faced during a regular day of work, \u201cit\u2019s a mission like this that reminds you why you do what you do,\u201d McCammon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 34-year-old sailor was left with a 2 percent survival rate following the detonation, leaving his rescuers \u201cshocked he survived the initial injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":12,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,12,25],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3297],"class_list":["post-25401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-news","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"IZQ3GNK7DJGT7DQ75R5HMXVOHE","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/2017\/12\/15\/air-force-medical-team-evacuates-sailor-wounded-by-ied-in-syria\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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