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Hiker evacuated after suffering heart attack in Rocky Mountain National Park
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The National Park Service reported that park dispatch received a cell phone call at 12:15 PM yesterday concerning an 80-year old man suffering from an apparent heart attack while on the Dream Lake Trail in the Bear Lake area of Rocky Mountain National Park. A park ranger medic reached the patient, who was roughly a mile from the trailhead at an elevation of 9,900 feet above sea level and a trail elevation gain of 425 feet, about 40 minutes later. Two other rangers reached the scene shortly thereafter.
A specialized eight-person park team arrived a half hour later and packaged the patient into a wheeled litter, transporting him out about an hour and a half after the incident was first reported. They reached the trailhead at 2:40 PM. Nine minutes later, the patient went into cardiac arrest. While rangers and paramedics from Estes Park Medical Center revived him, a medivac helicopter, known as St. Anthony’s Lifeguard One arrived at 3:05 and transported the man to Boulder Community Hospital for further care. Kyle Patterson, public information officer, said the patient was conscious when he left the park.
The man’s hometown is unknown at this time and his name will not be released until family members are notified.
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