{"id":426455,"date":"2024-12-01T23:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=426455"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Kayaker-stable-after-leg-amputated-in-Australian-river-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Kayaker-stable-after-leg-amputated-in-Australian-river-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaker &#8216;stable&#8217; after leg amputated in Australian river rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A kayaker whose leg was amputated after getting trapped in Australian river rocks is now &#8220;stable&#8221; in hospital, a health official said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign tourist&#8217;s situation had been described as critical shortly after his 20-hour ordeal in Tasmania&#8217;s Franklin River.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently in a &#8220;stable condition&#8221; at the Royal Hobart Hospital, a Tasmanian health department spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was described by local media as Lithuanian in his 60s who was rafting with 10 compatriots when disaster struck.<\/p>\n<p>Police said he was navigating rapids with his friends on November 22 when his leg became &#8220;wedged between rocks&#8221; in a crevice on the river.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s smartwatch alerted emergency services, sparking a &#8220;complex and protracted&#8221; rescue mission, they said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers were unable to free the man&#8217;s leg and finally opted to amputate the limb, giving him sedation and operating while he was still partially submerged in cold water.<\/p>\n<p>djw\/sn<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/1118cb8aaddb7d0b1d36c46fee4a6dec.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Kayaker&#8217;s leg was amputated after getting trapped in Australian river rocks<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kayaker whose leg was amputated after getting trapped in Australian river rocks is now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426455","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}