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In light of Carrie Fisher suffering a heart attack on a plane, I wonder if the airline industry would be served by offering an EMS discount for airline tickets.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Nope no need to. Airlines actually have full emergency kits and there own medical control that crews can call to talk them through an emergency and what to do. Also just because Carrie Fisher had a heart attack it shouldn't effect how airlines operate. There are regular people who have heart attacks on planes and no one cares but just because a person who is famous and used alot of cocaine has one it should force a operational shift?
I have flown in uniform and we were not upgraded (there were ~20 of us in full uniform though). We got to bypass the TSA screening process and the pilot allowed us to board the flight before everyone and also exit the flight first. The pilot shook our hands and we were all given a bottle of water and kept our blankets (overnight flight).I wonder if they would bump us up to first class if we are in our uniform? Just so everybody knows I'm an EMT.
with everyone saying the flight staff are training, to what level of training do they receive? do they hold EMT certifications? paramedic? first aid and CPR? Do they get this training when they first get hired, and that's it? do they need to demonstrate any level of competency, and are they reevaluated annually?
If they are simply EMR certified (as @AtlasFlyer said), then they know nothing about the lifepack 15 and full drug box. it's nice to have, but unless you know how to use it, well, it's pretty much like an ALS equipped fire engine pulling up to a medical emergency with a bunch of EMRs..... they can be very nice and do what they are told, and have the equipment to save your life, but without knowing how and when to use it, they are mostly equipment carriers.
I have to agree with @akflightmedic, plus in all the movies theres always a convenient doctor on board . Also what bullets said is true, as somebody with excessively limited ALS knowledge, I find it hard to believe any medic would do any kind of "advanced procedure" with no contact with MC, no idea how long it'll be to land, no way to find history(assuming the person is unconscious), and plenty plenty more.
@DEmedic do airlines have on-line medical control?
ooh i had no idea, i suppose it would get increasingly more difficult if your on international flights, due to language barrier, as well as possibly be flying over an ocean. does the MC doc work for the airline, or a hospital that they just pick?Yes. If you're treating a real medical emergency, you can (and probally will) talk directly to the med control doc. All of the airlines that have an EMK (the als box) will have medical control available and they will coordinate with the pilot to get you on the ground. There's some great article about how airlines handle in flight emergencies and lots about the plans in place to account for the varied certification levels of health care providers on board.
ooh i had no idea, i suppose it would get increasingly more difficult if your on international flights, due to language barrier, as well as possibly be flying over an ocean. does the MC doc work for the airline, or a hospital that they just pick?