2-year-old stops breathing mid-air, Flight makes emergency landing
The incident was confirmed by AIIMS Delhi, which took to its official X handle and shared the images of the baby and others
New-Delhi: In an very unfortunate incident, a two-year-old stopped breathing mid-air on Vistara Airline flight UK 814 enroute Delhi.
A distress call was announced on the flight, and five doctors onboard where returning back from the Indian Society for Vascular and Interventional Radiology (ISVIR) saved the life of the baby girl.
Due to the medical emergency, the flight was diverted to Nagpur, where the child was handed over to a pediatrician in a stable hemodynamic condition.
The incident was confirmed by AIIMS Delhi, which took to its official X (formerly Twitter) handle and shared the images of the baby and others.
“It was a 2-year-old cyanotic female child who was operated outside for intracardiac repair, was unconscious and cyanosed,” AIIMS Delhi wrote on X.
Further, AIIMS said the child’s pulse was found absent while he was being examined and his extremities were also cold.
The child was not breathing and had cyanosed lips and fingers, AIIMS tweeted.
“Successfully IV canulla was placed , oropharyngeal airway was put and emergency response was initiated by whole team of residents on board- and the baby for brought to ROSC- return of circulation,” the hospital wrote.
“It was complicated by another cardiac arrest for which an AED was used. For 45 mins , baby was resuscitated and flight was routed to Nagpur. On reaching Nagpur, child was handed over in stable hemodynamic to the pediatrician,” it added.
The five doctors who saved the life of the baby included Dr Navdeep Kaur,Dr Damandeep Singh,Dr Rishab Jain,Dr Oishika and Dr Avichala Taxak.
(Input from agencies)
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