Name: Beaver Island responders stabilize a chainsaw injury and evacuate the patient, 2006
Start: 2006-12
End: 2006-12
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2006-12
Kind: Rescue
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: emergency-managementhealthcarepublic-serviceaccidentcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

In late 2006, an Island chainsaw injury severed a tendon and artery. Dean Peters provided immediate aid and transport, and Beaver Island EMS and the Rural Health Center stabilized the patient before evacuation to Charlevoix.

Evidence limits

This is a first-person account and does not provide a clinical record or exact incident date and location.

Sources

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Sources

Ed Eicher, "Thanks to Dean and the EMS," Beaver Beacon, January 2007.
Describes a chainsaw injury that severed a tendon and artery, Dean Peters' initial aid and transport, Health Center stabilization, EMS assistance, and evacuation to Charlevoix. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, January 2007, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the first-person rescue account.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island responders stabilize a chainsaw injury and evacuate the patient, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ems-chain-saw-rescue-2006/, accessed [date], citing Ed Eicher, "Thanks to Dean and the EMS," Beaver Beacon, January 2007. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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