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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Short of a miracle, I don’t think there’s any hope for her.
Personal experience with that situation and the person did not make it.
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.
The single most important factor is how soon CPR is started after the heart stops beating. When I went through BLS this Summer, the paramedics said if you can get there within 1-2 minutes, the survival odds are good.
Thankfully, most folks who are trained will try. You can go ahead and give up.
Well she was probably better off that a nurse and doctor were helping her on the plane.
15 minutes to landing and then Paramedics spent an additional 15 minutes administering more CPR to Fisher before getting a pulse. The actress is now on a ventilator in the UCLA medical center.
I would say it would be a miracle if she survives. It sounds like she if being kept alive at this point. Because that was a very long time. I'm surprised they were even able to get a pulse back to be honest.
Time will tell I guess.
Drudge is currently quoting that she is unstable. Sounds more and more like she’s a goner, which might be better than living in a brain dead status.
Prayers for her and her family.
American Heart Association states a 10% chance of survival from CPR in non hospital setting
I never said I would give up, and that I a shitty thing to say.
Why would you say something like that?
>If she recovers, she might have that proof she is requesting<
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Most people never get that chance.
Carrie Fisher may be close to death . . .
Darn! And I so hoped that she would play Hillary Clinton in the forthcoming movie. She has cankles also.
You are right, she ‘knew’ it for exactly two days before retracting.
Asked by Vulture at the New York Film Festival to clarify her tweet, Fisher took back the accusation, stating that it was most likely nerves causing Trump’s sniffles.
“I don’t [think he uses cocaine],” she told Vulture on Monday night. “I don’t know because every day something weirder comes out about him and more awful. But his brother was an alcoholic and died of it. I think it scared him. He says he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t drink, he doesn’t do drugs, so he generally tells the worst truth to shock you. I know something about this, so if he did coke, he would want you to know.”
You wrote:
"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."
If I misinterpreted what you meant by the above sentence, then my apologies.
It was meant to be the generic you, as in anyone.
I accept your apology. Merry Christmas.
Yikes, a plane is not where you want to have a heart attack.
Well, no where is, but especially not a plane in flight.
Another one that was good looking and threw it all away...
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