Personal Injury Law

SD Coast Guard teams perform 2 medevacs

By Lipcon, Margulies & Alsina, P.A.

SAN DIEGO ? The Coast Guard airlifted an ill passenger from a cruise ship off Point Loma Friday night in stormy sea conditions.

The ship, MS Maasdam, was about 55 miles south of Point Loma when Coast Guard Sector San Diego received a call from the ship?s crew about 11:30 p.m. stating that an 86-year-old woman was suffering from internal bleeding.

A Coast Guard flight surgeon was consulted and determined the woman needed medical attention onshore.

An M60 Jayhawk helicopter was dispatched from San Diego. A rescue swimmer was lowered from the helicopter to the ship to assist in the hoist of the patient.

At the time, seas were about 14 feet and winds were gusting to 25 knots, said Mark Mutchler, Coast Guard operations controller.

The woman was taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and was in stable condition.

Earlier Friday, a Coast Guard helicopter from San Diego flew to Bahia de Gonzaga in Baja California, Mexico, to airlift a 67-year-old U.S. citizen who had an undisclosed life-threatening medical condition. He was taken to a hospital in Yuma, Ariz., and was in stable condition.

Full post as published by Cruise Ship Law on January 23, 2010 (boomark / email).