She had a serious cocaine habit complete with a 'coke nail' back in the original Star Wars series days.
Must have had some permanent damage.
Posted on 12/23/2016 5:12:06 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Dramatic pilot distress call reveals Carrie Fisher, 60, suffered a massive heart attack on 11-hour flight and was kept alive with CPR from a nurse passenger after she 'stopped breathing for 10 MINUTES'
Carrie Fisher is currently in stable condition after suffering a massive heart attack on board an 11-hour transatlantic flight from London to Los Angeles - after the pilot's harrowing distress call revealed how fellow passengers saved her life.
Her brother, Todd Fisher, told The Associated Press that she was 'out of emergency' and stabilized at a Los Angeles hospital Friday afternoon. He said he could not discuss any other details about what happened.
Fisher was kept alive with CPR administered by a fellow passenger after she was not breathing for 10 minutes or so, it has been claimed. The legend was on a United Airlines Flight 935 seated in first class when it's said she went into cardiac arrest.
Her 24-year-old daughter, Billie Lourd, rushed to UCLA Medical Center to be by her bedside, as the actress's beloved French bulldog named Gary was also brought to the hospital.
Prior to landing at LAX, the pilot of the United Flight told the control tower that passengers aboard the plane were helping an 'unresponsive passenger,' but did not name who it was.
'United 935 I need the nature of your medical emergency, and also the sex of the patient and if there is medical personnel at the gate,' an official from the control tower can be heard asking the pilot on the recording.
'Yea, we've coordinated medical personnel for the gate, we have some passengers, nurses, assisting the ... unresponsive passenger,' the pilot replied.
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That's what it is, I fear.
She had a serious cocaine habit complete with a 'coke nail' back in the original Star Wars series days.
Must have had some permanent damage.
It was confusingly worded then because stable is different than critical but stable.
Fisher has described herself as an "enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God".>/b>
If she recovers, she might have that proof she is requesting. Still, I am praying for a lady that I had the 'hots' for at a younger age!
Her brother is a very passionate and intense born again Christian (introduced by Debby Boone).
She’s stable and out of emergency room according to her brother.
It just shows you how important a little punctuation and clause placement is. Yes, obviously,she was NOT not breathing for 10 minutes. She would almost certainly be dead.
Not sure. The report also stated, “massive heart attack”.
This would likely result in muscle damage. Hope she'll be ok. Sounds pretty serious though. 60 years old...pretty young.
They are keeping her alive until her family can come say their good byes.
Hopefully not, but you are most probably right. There is a less than 2% chance of survival with a heart attack requiring CPR in a non hospital setting.
CPR done outside of the hospital is successful less than a couple of percent.
You can press on a dead chest all night long, but it’s not going to accomplish much other than make you feel like you did something.
10 minutes of straight up not breathing is bad. 10 minutes of assisted ventilation with effective chest compressions is much better but still...
I have a bad feeling that her family will soon be pressured to remove her from life support.
“She is a very lucky woman to survive an ordeal like that.”
Maybe not. I’m DNR because the odds of coming back to anything like full brains and full functionality are very low. CPR is not really a good bet, especially if you have not been breathing for 10 minutes.
Ask your doctor whether they are DNR.
The timing for this couldn’t have been worse. Ten minutes with breathing is not good at all.
Red Cross is no promoting hands only CPR without rescue breathing. Not sure what we have all been taught over the years is still considered operative. 10 minutes may not be that bad now.
I am curious but I also thought planes now carried AEDs but it does not mention that in the article.
Red Cross is no promoting hands only CPR without rescue breathing. Not sure what we have all been taught over the years is still considered operative. 10 minutes may not be that bad now.
I am curious but I also thought planes now carried AEDs but it does not mention that in the article.
That was according to a passenger in the seat ahead of hers. I am not sure that would be in the best position to give a detailed medical evaluation but at least the event did happen only 15 minutes before landing.
Rule is you can’t do coke after 50.
Ask Jerry Garcia and John Entwistle.
She is in ICU according to his latest update.
Just saw this on twitter:
Variety @Variety 21m21 minutes ago
Carrie Fisher moved from the emergency room to intensive care, is not in stable condition, her brother says
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