Ukrainian military medics save wounded soldier in open sea

Medics from Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) have carried out a rare rescue operation in open-sea conditions to save a wounded soldier.

Source: DIU

Details: The wounded soldier was brought to a floating platform in a "critical condition with massive blood loss, a traumatic amputation and severe hypothermia".

DIU said that a tourniquet has been applied late, which led to hypothermia.

Quote: "We immediately started warming him up vigorously because the weather conditions were already quite unfavourable. The ambient temperature was about 10 degrees Celsius.

And gradually, as his vital signs began returning to normal, we started performing surgery."

More details: The operation lasted about 45 minutes.

The wounded man was transported to shore by boats.

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