Airplanes are among the safest modes of travel, but a recent death on an American Airlines flight reminds us that an in-flight medical emergency can be quite dangerous. Dr. Manny talks about how to make your flight safer from a health perspective, and offers an interesting suggestion that all airlines can easily implement that might make air travel safer.
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This was very informative, I rarely fly so I wouldn’t even think about these sort of things you bring up… thanks for addressing the issue!
a 37% chance of receiving CPR right away where as you have basically a 100% chance or receiving CPR right away on a plane. Flight attendants are there for your safety and American Airlines flight attendants have saved about 89 lives since about 1997 thanks to there CPR, AED, and firt aid training.
All flight attendants are AED, CPR, and advanced first aid certified. Of all places I possible for a cardiac arrest to occur an airplane may be one of the better options because there’s always a AED on board, there’s a 96% chance a medical professional will be on board, and there’s basically a 100% chance you will get CPR right away because on every single commercial flight with more than 19 seats a flight attendant will be on board. If you go into cardiac arrest on say the street you only have
i really appreciate how you took the time to post up this video…I think what you adressed here is extremely important information..gives us a lot to think about…it is very true…we take it for granted…