A recent story in the LA Times highlights the death of an airlines passenger, allegedly because of faulty medical equipment. Click on the picture to right to see the medical kit/equipment that large commercial airliners should have available.
The article in the New England Journal of Medicine "Responding to Medical Events during Commercial Airline Flights" is available here:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/346/14/1067
We will be discussing this and other articles during a fireside UNM Wilderness Medicine journal club later this month in Utah!
Update on the death in the skies:
Woman dies on American Airlines flight
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