Posted on 08/04/2011 5:03:23 PM PDT by rawhide
Who needs CPR when you can have a soda?
Although European flight attendants are mandated to know first aid, one family says that when a relative went into cardiac arrest during a flight, the baffled flight crew didn’t deliver life-saving CPR, but instead delivered a sandwich and soda…and charged for it.
"We want Ryainair to apologize," Billie Appleton said, according to the Aftonbladet newspaper.
Appleton says her stepfather, Per-Erik Jonsson, 63, went into cardiac arrest during a flight from England to his home in Sweden. When he lost consciousness, his wife alerted the staff but they were unprepared to render treatment, Appleton told the paper.
“They said he had low blood pressure and gave him a sandwich and a soda,” she told the paper. “And they made sure he paid for it.”
Appleton is a nurse and apparently put her medical skills to use. She slapped her stepfather on the chest, which got him breathing again, she told the paper.
Once the Swedish man appeared to stabilize, the flight crew presented the family the bill for the soda and sandwich, she said, according to the paper.
A Ryanair spokesman told The Local that the flight crew handled the situation correctly.
“In line with procedures for such cases a Ryanair cabin crew suggested a diversion to the nearest airport or to have an ambulance on stand-by on arrival at Skavsta, so that the passenger could receive medical treatment," he said, according to The Local.
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Wow, classy.
Pikers.
American hospitals have billing for extra’s down pat.
What kind of sandwich was it? Might have been worth it.
Ted Kennedy was not on this flight.
Couldnt have been a cardiac arrest.
Slaps dont rescusitate people.
If it were one of those girls however, that might have done it.
I hope they gave him a doggy bag
I know we honor free enterprise here but airlines sure know how to get under my skin. I’ve met many fine individual employees who have helped me along the way but management decisions just seem to tick me off.
Yeah, I thought they had that on all planes...
Yeah, did he eat the sandwich?
Some sandwiches are worth the price.
definitely
Yes, I know it's Europe. Isn't that the *point*, to be more like them?
Cheers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rxASx1SxY
Get me the £5 priority boarding pass
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