Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
A normal flight to Jamaica turned into a life-saving endeavor after two anesthesiologists created a makeshift medical ventilator to save an elderly woman who had gone into respiratory arrest.
Matthew Stevenson and John Flanagan were on a JetBlu flight in January when the senior started having trouble breathing.
A nurse who also happened to be aboard the plane tried to help the woman recover – but nothing would relieve the breathing distress.When Stevenson saw what was going on, he flagged down Flanagan for help. They asked the flight crew if they had a hand-operated manual resuscitator on board to pump oxygen into her lungs.
Because they did not, the doctors resolved to build their own.
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As Flanagan conducted CPR on the woman, Stevenson reportedly cut off the tubing and airbag from one of the plane’s emergency masks in the ceiling and connected them…
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