Posted on 05/20/2024 4:55:52 AM PDT by Sam77
A mother is suing American Airlines after her 14-year-old son died from a heart attack on one of the planes in 2022.
The federal lawsuit alleges that the plane’s onboard defibrillator did not function correctly and that the flight crew was not properly trained to use the medical equipment.
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defibrillators only work on TV shows.....................
She can sue God, for not raising him from the dead.
Alternately, I guess we should all be flying in air ambulances.
Staff should still know how to use them. Their training should have an official audit.
The 14 year old had type 2 diabetes?? Hmmmm.
She knew he was sick and took him anyway
They are an airline, not a hospital, dumbass.
The airlines need to start requiring anyone who wants to fly on their planes to get a physical from a physician prior to the flight.
Did not help my husband either.
That’s right. If the patient goes flat line, nothing will revive them short of a miracle.
They aren’t hard to use, and the instructions are very simple and included in the package. If you can read, you can hook up a defib. And maybe even if you can’t - they have drawings as I recall from the less than 5 minute training I got years ago.
Sure - so even more of a fail if they don’t know. There’s no excuse for not knowing.
I saw video of a Delta flight catching fire once it parked at the terminal - it took several minutes for emergency units to arrive, people on the ground doing nothing. Many minutes to emergency vacate. These things escalate quickly...it just ‘feels’ like the whole aviation industry is lowering standards all over (DEI + reducing cost).
There will be casualties.
There are many abnormal rhythms that the heart can go into and not all of those are shockable rhythms. Hooking up an AED is not going to tell you what the rhythm is, only if it advises shock or CPR. You have to spend >$10K to get one that will show a EKG strip and then you have to be able to read what you are seeing, and have the meds available to push.
Prayers for the family.
When you say “don’t work” do you mean that they fail to deliver a shock, or that the person does not recover even after the shock?
On April 12, 2001, the FAA issued a final rule, 14 CFR part 121, subpart X - Emergency Medical Equipment and Training. This rule requires that passenger-carrying airplanes are equipped with approved first aid kit(s), an approved EMK, and an approved automated external defibrillator.
And in the event of cardiac arrest, chances of survival are greatly improved if a defibrillator is used in conjunction with CPR.
Even if the inability to use it didn’t effect the outcome, the airline should still be on the hook if the defibrillator wasn’t properly maintained.
It would be instructive if all media accounts of sudden and unexpected deaths, especially heart related deaths and where the deceased is youthful, woould reveal the Covid vaccine status.
They seldom recover. If you get a heart beat back its still very low percentage that make it. If cpr is initiated very quickly maybe. A better chance but if not its very low percentage.
jab or not -
bottom line the mom choose to take her son to a place where very little medical help would be available in an emergency situation.
Doesn’t matter if medical equipment didn’t work and personnel not trained well. It is NOT their job to save/resuscitate a person mid flight.
If God had wanted the kid to live HE would have.
Mom’s got hard lessons to learn from her poor choices in the matter that led to the kid being on the plane (not flying ER facility) in the first place.
people don’t take planes, ships, cars etc etc as seriously as they should.
Googled his name. He looks Fat Albert obese.
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