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Sunday, September 27. 2015

In-flight medical emergencies


Good info for ordinary passengers, physicians, nurses, EMS people, etc.: The Clinician's Guide to In-Flight Emergencies


I'd rather be on a flight with an EMS person than with a Dermatologist. Every person should know how to do CPR. The tricky part is knowing when it is needed. If they stop breathing and turn blue, probably yes.


People do die on airplanes, but they probably would have died anyway. Interesting factoid: airplane air has 10% lower oxygen than the air on the ground.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Medical at 12:27 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Over the years I seen a lot more sick people boarding planes. Not only the chronically ill or very frail elderly, but young and middle aged people with flue or very bad colds. Occasionally I've seen a flight attendant turn them away, but not often. Add the very pregnant and a big enough population of medically questionable passengers to start getting concerned. Unlike ground transport where at least you can stop the car in seconds, emergency landings of airliners are difficult and sometimes dangerous.
#1 DirtyJobsGuy on 2015-09-27 14:34 (Reply)
That's most likely mostly because you see a lot more people on planes overall...
And maybe you just have become more observant to "undesirables".
#1.1 J.T. Wenting on 2015-09-27 22:28 (Reply)

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