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More Than a Bizjet: The Heroes Who Bring Patients Home
When a toddler became critically ill overseas, it was the flight and medical crew who got her home
medevac mission by Intermountain Health
When a toddler became critically ill overseas, it was the flight and medical crew who got her home. © Intermountain Health

Estelle Santiago blew out her birthday candles surrounded by people most children never meet twice: the flight nurse who had monitored her vitals for 18 hours over ocean and land, the physicians who consulted on her case across two continents by phone, and the pilots who flew an air ambulance to South America and back to bring her home.

Months earlier, nobody in that room was sure this birthday would happen.

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