The story of the rescue of some children in a cave in Thailand reaches the podium

In June 2018, a group of Thai children made headlines around the world when a walk inside a cave led to an international rescue. Four years later, the story was shown on digital platforms in the series Rescue in a cave in Thailand‘, which has already become available since last Thursday Netflix.

Through six episodes, the series depicts all the drama she went through during the 15-day rescue, showing the hurdles each party had to jump over, from the Thai government to the foreign divers who joined in, to bring them abroad for both. The kids and their coach, against a factor they can’t control, the weather.

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It must be remembered that this true story began on June 23, 2018, when the Wild Boars football team and their coach decided to visit Tham Luang Nang No Cave, which contains one of the most dangerous cave systems in the world, the problem began for these 12 children, aged 11 and 17, and the adults who accompanied them, are only 25 years old; When it started raining and the caves were flooded, preventing them from going outside.

Although his absence was immediately reported and rescue operations were to begin soon, the rapid rise in the water levels in the caves complicated matters and required the intervention of rescue teams from Australia, the United States, Japan and China, as well as the Royal Thai Navy and an underwater demolition assault unit.

It was only on 2 July that Richard Stanton and John Volanthen of the British Cavern Rescue Council found the missing 4km from the entrance, sheltered on a high rock but in an inaccessible area. While figuring out the best way to get the 12 boys and their trainer out, on July 6, Saman Konan, a 38-year-old former Thai Marine, died while carrying supplies because his oxygen tank ran out and left him unconscious on his return trip. He was able to surface, there was no way to revive him.

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From this experience, the participants in this rescue operation decided to do something very daring, to give the children and the coach a dose of ketamine, Xanax, and atropine until they lost consciousness and could be removed from the scene without panic. What is the primary anesthetist’s role?

The operation began on July 8, and for three days the members of the Wild Boars were taken out of the cave in groups of four, so that the twelve children and their coach were safely outside on July 10, although they should have been. He was taken to the hospital, ending what would have been a great tragedy.

But it’s not the first time that this story has inspired a program or series, in 2021 National Geographic presented a documentary called The Rescue, and in 2022 Amazon Prime Video showed the movie Thirteen Lives.

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