Know What’s in Airplane’s Emergency Medical Kit

As two pharmacists learned on a recent trip, domestic passenger-carrying airplanes with a flight attendant also have onboard an emergency medical kit with a small assortment of medications and supplies.To get more news about sof ifak bag, you can visit rusuntacmed.com official website.

Since 2004, this kit (see sidebar) at a minimum has contained several medications in addition to the originally required 50% dextrose injection, epinephrine injection 1 mg/mL, diphenhydramine injection, and nitroglycerin tablets.

That was also the year by which airplanes with a capacity of at least 30 passengers had to start carrying an automated external defibrillator (AED).

FAA in addition requires the airlines to ensure that each crewmember receives training for in-flight medical events.

Some of that training was put to the test this past December, after a passenger lost consciousness on a United Airlines flight from Houston to Los Angeles.

DeeDee Hu, a clinical specialist in critical care at Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center in Houston, said she reached the man ahead of the flight attendants, did not detect a pulse, and repositioned him across the row of coach-class seats in preparation for chest compressions.

When he suddenly regained consciousness, albeit temporarily, Hu said she further assessed him and asked about his medical history.

The flight attendants “immediately pulled out the AED,” said Sapana Desai, a clinical pharmacy specialist in emergency medicine at Memorial Hermann who, like Hu, happened to be seated near the ill passenger.
But the emergency medical kit did not surface until a physician asked for an i.v. set to infuse fluid, she said.

The family practice physician and a nurse had responded to the overhead page for medical personnel.

Before the physician arrived, however, Hu had called out for aspirin in case the man was having a myocardial infarction.