{"id":359577,"date":"2022-01-12T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=359577"},"modified":"2022-01-12T06:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:01:10","slug":"coast-guard-medevacs-contractor-from-wake-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/coast-guard-medevacs-contractor-from-wake-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard medevacs contractor from Wake Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU\u2014An Air Station Barbers Point HC-130 Hercules aircrew conducted a medical evacuation on a 56-year-old contractor from Wake Island to Hawaii last Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The contractor was suffering from symptoms of a bacterial infection and was transported to waiting emergency medical services on Oahu. He was reported to be in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>At 8:10pm, Sunday, Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu received a call from medical staff on Wake Island reporting a contractor was suffering from a four-day history of pain in his hip and was having trouble walking.<\/p>\n<p>The medical staff on Wake Island diagnosed the contractor as having a bacterial infection and reported he required a transport to a higher level of care.<\/p>\n<p>A Coast Guard duty flight surgeon conducted a conference call with the doctor on Wake Island and concurred with his diagnosis and recommended immediate transport.<\/p>\n<p>JRCC Honolulu watchstanders deployed the Hercules aircrew to Wake Island to transport the contractor back to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>At 3:30pm, Monday, the Hercules aircrew arrived at Air Station Barbers Point where the contractor was transferred to an awaiting ambulance and brought to Queens Medical Center. (USCG)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU\u2014An Air Station Barbers Point HC-130 Hercules aircrew conducted a medical evacuation on a 56-year-old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":359580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[328,1434],"class_list":["post-359577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-coast-guard","tag-wake-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}