Members from Brooke Army Medical Center and the 59th Medical Wing pose for a photo alongside U.S. Marine Corps personnel at the Red Berry Estate, San Antonio, Texas, on Oct. 17, 2024. . Brooke Army Medical Center houses the Department of Defense's only Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Center, a heart-lung bypass system that supports patients by taking over the functions of the heart and lungs during treatment and natural healing. Cpl. Reyes was deployed to Darwin, Australia, where he completed his Corporals Course and aerial observer/gunner training. During his final training flight, an MV-22 Osprey crashed on the Tiwi Islands off the coast of Darwin, leaving Cpl. Reyes was critically injured and in need of urgent care. After initial treatment at Royal Darwin Hospital and a transfer to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, where he spent nearly two months in the ICU, a groundbreaking ECMO retrieval mission was executed. Brooke Army Medical Center's ECMO team, in collaboration with the Institute of Surgical Research Burn Intensive Care Unit, carried out the longest ECMO retrieval in history, which also marked the first in-flight ECMO circuit change. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kelsey Martinez)
| Date Taken: | 10.17.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 10.21.2024 10:37 |
| Photo ID: | 8708605 |
| VIRIN: | 241017-F-OG981-6655 |
| Resolution: | 6909x4935 |
| Size: | 4.92 MB |
| Location: | SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, US |
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