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| **Photos Available** Coast Guard medevacs cruise ship passenger |
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Coast Guard members and a local Key West EMS member look on as a Coast Guard small boat from Station Key West, Fla., approaches the Carnival Liberty. (USCG photo)
Coast Guard members assist the patient off the Carnival Liberty and onto the Coast Guard small boat. (USCG photo) KEY WEST, Fla. - Coast Guard medevaced a 76-year-old Philadelphia native from the cruise ship Carnival Liberty Friday. Coast Guard Sector Key West received a call at approximately 11 p.m. Thursday from the Carnival Liberty requesting assistance with an ill passenger while en route from Mexico to Miami. The Carnival Liberty, 260 miles southwest of Key West, stated a person aboard was possibly suffering from cardiac arrest and needed medical assistance. The Coast Guard consulted their flight surgeon in Miami who recommended the patient be transferred off the cruise ship. The Coast Guard small boat met the Carnival Liberty about 20 miles south of Key West, took the patient and his wife aboard the small boat, and then headed back to Station Key West where local EMS further transferred him to the Lower Keys Medical Center. |
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