When medical care is up in air, doctors on ground respond
By Tom Fontaine, Times Staff PITTSBURGH – About seven times a day, a phone rings inside a small, dark room on the 13th floor of Pittsburgh's UPMC Presbyterian, and the recognizable name of a commercial [...]
Outcomes of Medical Emergencies on Commercial Airline Flights
Download PDF Version Drew C. Peterson, M.D., Christian Martin-Gill, M.D., M.P.H., Francis X. Guyette, M.D., M.P.H., Adam Z. Tobias, M.D., M.P.H., Catherine E. McCarthy, B.S., Scott T. Harrington, M.D., Theodore R. Delbridge, M.D., M.P.H., and [...]
In-flight automated external defibrillator use and consultation patterns
Download PDF Version Published in final edited form as: Prehosp Emerg Care. 2010 April 6; 14(2): 235–239. doi:10.3109/1090312090357231 AM Brown1, JC Rittenberger2, CM Ammon3, S Harrington2, and FX Guyette2 1 University of Pittsburgh Affilated Residency [...]
Medical emergency aloft – what you need to know!
Click Here to View Article Jerome Greer Chandler 11 Aug 2015 Each year there are 44,000 medical emergencies in commercial passengers planes but fortunately many problems are dealt with using air-to-ground links to dedicated 24/7 [...]
Pittsburgh service advises airlines on health crises like Ebola
Click Here to View Article UPMC service advises airlines on handling emergency illnesses By David Templeton / PIttsburgh Post-Gazette Medical problems can occur at the most inopportune times. Consider airplane flights and the classic cinematic [...]
Ebola Alarms Spread With Crews, Fliers on Illness Alert
Click Here to View Article Michael Sasso and Mary Schlangenstein October 13, 2014, 6:12 PM EDT October 14, 2014, 10:22 AM EDT With the arrival of the Ebola virus in the U.S., a fever or [...]
Local doctors on-call for in-flight medical emergencies
Click Here to View Article PITTSBURGH - Medical emergencies happen on board flights about 50 times a day in the U.S. When there is a serious situation, crews rely on doctors here in Pittsburgh to [...]
Pilot’s in-flight death highlights aerial emergencies
Click Here to View Article Nightly News | September 27, 2013 In-flight emergencies are more common than you realize. NBC’s Tom Costello reports. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
What Happens If You Become Seriously Ill During a Flight
Click Here to View Article Marc Weber Tobias, Contributor If you fly on commercial airlines in the United States and have ever wondered what would happen in the event of a medical emergency, especially if [...]
In the air, health emergencies rise quietly
Click Here to View Article By Robert Davis and Anthony DeBarros, USA TODAY The death of an American Airlines passenger during a flight from Haiti to New York last month has cast a spotlight on [...]