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Published on: 3/8/2001
Last Visited: 10/8/2003
U.S. Secret Service Medical Director Nelson Tang, above right, with an unidentified agent on Jimmy Carter's historic trip to Cuba last year.
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As director of the Division of Special Operations in the Department of Emergency Medicine and medical director of the U.S. Secret Service, Tang leads a team of Hopkins physicians in supplying on-site medical support to former presidents, dignitaries and their entourages on international trips deemed medically high-risk.
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According to Tang, there were no "blues," or medical emergencies with the POTUS (that's Dubya)."We did have to evacuate someone to Germany for acute abdominal pain, and I had to treat the mission's lead coordinating agent for severe dehydration."Surprisingly, the special operations team rarely sees major trauma, handling instead routine complaints like sore throats and sprained ankles.Agents and members of Tang's team often work 18-hour days while abroad."The climate in these places can be quite hostile," he says.
On some trips, there have been cases as serious as pneumonia and appendicitis."Our challenge then is to stabilize the patients until we can get them evacuated," says Tang, who also heads up Hopkins' Lifeline and MedEvac transport programs and the Emergency Department's telemedicine program.
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The third is a special operations medical support program for which Tang's group augments Secret Service emergency response capacities at major domestic events."It's been a tremendous opportunity for our staff and faculty," says Tang.
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