B737 captain reported that distraction during a time critical medical diversion caused him to exceed...

Attributes
ACN	1700015
Time
Date	201911
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 193 Flight Crew Total 1140 Flight Crew Type 1140
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Speed All Types Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness

Narrative:

I was told by an internist and medlink that my passenger would not live more than 1 hour. We made the decision to divert to ZZZ. We were coming in very high. We could not comply with a crossing restriction. I came back into the loop from handling the medical issue and took the plane back from the first officer. I noted we were 3;000 feet high at the final approach fix. I did not want to risk going around. I asked for the gear down at 8;000 ft. After a couple minutes we had lost the extra altitude and I asked for the gear up. I was at 242 kts. I unintentionally exceeded the gear retraction speed. I should have noted the limit; but was prejudiced flying other equipment that 242 kts was slow enough to retract the gear. We made a write up. The exceedance was cleared by maintenance control. We exceeded the retraction speed by 7 kts. No damage to the aircraft.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 Captain reported that distraction during a time critical medical diversion caused him to exceed a landing gear speed limitation.

Narrative: I was told by an Internist and Medlink that my passenger would not live more than 1 hour. We made the decision to divert to ZZZ. We were coming in very high. We could not comply with a crossing restriction. I came back into the loop from handling the medical issue and took the plane back from the First Officer. I noted we were 3;000 feet high at the final approach fix. I did not want to risk going around. I asked for the gear down at 8;000 ft. After a couple minutes we had lost the extra altitude and I asked for the gear up. I was at 242 kts. I unintentionally exceeded the gear retraction speed. I should have noted the limit; but was prejudiced flying other equipment that 242 kts was slow enough to retract the gear. We made a write up. The exceedance was cleared by Maintenance Control. We exceeded the retraction speed by 7 kts. No damage to the aircraft.

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B737 captain reported that distraction during a time critical medical diversion caused him to exceed a landing gear speed limitation.