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[leftyman]

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I wonder if they will get a bill in the mail?




sorry if its a repost..

 

[WingZero94]

w00t

 

[Fritzo]

That is really cool. I wonder who does foot the bill for that.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

WTF, a cruise ship should have facilities to handle something like this. What do they do if someone breaks a leg or a worker gets seriously injured in the engine room?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
WTF, a cruise ship should have facilities to handle something like this. What do they do if someone breaks a leg or a worker gets seriously injured in the engine room?

a burst appendix is no joke, cruse ships do have infirmiries but they cant do medicial emergencies because keeping a full OR on staff would be way to expensive

 

[Leros]

Cool. It really amazes me the way we can take care of people these days.

 

[911paramedic]

The USS Ronald Reagan was on a training mission in the Pacific Ocean 550 miles away and immediately dispatched two helicopters.

If they were deployed they would have let the CG or Pararescue take it, and she would have been flown back to San Diego for Tx.

Aircraft carriers have full surgery suites, cruise ships do not... last time I checked anyways.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
That is really cool. I wonder who does foot the bill for that.

taxpayers do of course. but they can claim this as a training exercises (which it kinda is).

anyway very cool.

 

[marvdmartian]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
WTF, a cruise ship should have facilities to handle something like this. What do they do if someone breaks a leg or a worker gets seriously injured in the engine room?

Broken legs are usually an easy fix, unless it's a multiple compound fracture. Any really bad injuries would likely get an SOS, with a Coast Guard/Navy rescue. Like was said by 911paramedic, a carrier has a full hospital-like area on board, and is equipped to do surgery. How often would a cruise ship need that sort of capabilities? Probably not often enough to be worth the expense (and let's face it, it's the bottom line that most businesses worry about, right?). Part of the reason why, whenever you hear about a cruise ship coming back with 1/2 or more of the people on board sick, that they couldn't handle it.

I do remember, back ~26-27 years ago, when I was on board a fast frigate (my first ship), all we had was an E-6 hospital corpsman. But he'd been trained to do pretty much anything a doctor could do, all the way up to minor surgery if needed. "Doc" was pretty cool too!

 

[DanTMWTMP]

I work on research vessels. Of course we don't have a fully staff infirmary, however, most crew members are fully trained in first-aid, and we have a sat phone to a doctor.

Once we had a guy had kidney stones. We thought it was appendicitis, so he was airlifted out from the local gov't's coast guard heli.