Helicopters transport two fishermen back to shore for emergency medical treatment.

Earlier, at around 1 AM on October 22nd, fisherman NS (39 years old), after diving to a depth of 30 meters for 120 minutes, came ashore feeling tired, with muscle pain in both legs, dizziness, difficulty urinating, and shortness of breath.

The patient was admitted to the Song Tu Tay Island Clinic that afternoon in a state of generalized pain, quadriplegia, muscle strength 3/5, sphincter dysfunction causing urinary and bowel incontinence, and anuria. Simultaneously, the skin showed mottled patches, tissue hypoxia, and abdominal distension...

The medical station on Song Tu Tay Island quickly consulted with doctors from the Naval Medical Institute, the Central Military Hospital 108, and Military Hospital 175. The doctors concluded that the patient suffered severe decompression sickness due to deep diving and multi-organ air embolism. The prognosis was very serious and beyond the capabilities of the island's military medical staff. Therefore, the doctors decided to transport the patient to Military Hospital 175 for timely treatment.

Helicopter VN-8619 landed and transported the patient to Hospital 175 for emergency treatment.

During the flight to Song Tu Tay Island to transport a patient, the emergency team received orders to transport another patient from Sinh Ton Island with multiple injuries, including severe traumatic brain injury and a closed fracture of the middle third of the left clavicle due to a fall. Upon arrival, the patient was in a coma, with a dilated left pupil of 5 mm. The patient was intubated, placed on a ventilator, and transported along with patient NS on the same flight to the mainland for treatment.

Lieutenant, Doctor Nguyen Van Nghia, from the Intensive Care Unit of Military Hospital 175, said that this was a special flight because the two patients were being treated from two different islands, therefore requiring extremely close coordination between on-site treatment and the air ambulance team of Military Hospital 175, especially during transportation, to ensure the highest level of safety for the two patients.

"The most challenging aspect of this emergency flight was having to travel between two different islands. The patient also had to participate in multiple takeoffs and landings—specifically three times—and each time, due to changes in pressure, there was a risk of air bubbles reforming in the blood vessels, worsening the embolism of the patient with decompression sickness. In addition, bad weather conditions, with heavy rain, affected both the flight crew and the emergency team, as well as the patient's condition," Dr. Nghia shared.

Currently, the patients' vital signs are temporarily stable. Upon transfer to Military Hospital 175, the patients were immediately admitted to the Emergency Department, where a hospital consultation was held to determine further treatment.

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