Dr Vishwaraj Vemala was on a flight to India when a passenger went into cardiac arrest
Dr Vishwaraj Vemala was on a flight from the UK to India when the passenger went into cardiac arrest
Dr Vishwaraj Vemala, 48, a liver specialist at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was on his way to India with his mother when a fellow passenger went into cardiac arrest. Cabin crew on board the Air India flight from London in November frantically began searching for a doctor when the passenger suffered a cardiac arrest and was left without a pulse and not breathing."Luckily, they had an emergency kit, which to my utter surprise, included resuscitative medication to enable life support."However, other than oxygen and an automatic defibrillator, he said there was little to help monitor how the patient was doing.
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