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Red Eye's and other strangeness from last night.

Good god Marc. She was pregnant. Some body must have thought so.....

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Getty [mailto:marc@getty.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 12:26 PM
>To: ''Dan Bubb'', ''Chris Bennett'', ''Scirocco List''
>Subject: RE: Red Eye's and other strangeness from last night.
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>Was she hot?
>
>-Marc
>
>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
>'83 VW Scirocco California Edition
>'84 VW Rabbit GTI Pickup Truck
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Bubb [mailto:jdbubb@verizon.net] 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:21 PM
>To: Chris Bennett; Scirocco List
>Subject: Re: Red Eye's and other strangeness from last night.
>
>Way to go Chris!
>Sounds like she was a lot better off with your assistance than she would
>have been.
>Thumbup!
>Dan
>
>From: "Chris Bennett" <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com>
>To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:30 AM
>Subject: OT: Red Eye's and other strangeness from last night.
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>> Let me say first that THANK GOD in HEAVEN or whatever YOU choose to 
>> pray to... that I wasn't the one jacked up last night or I would be 
>> COMPLETELY screwed.
>> 
>> I get on the red-eye to Philly last night in Vegas. 11pm pac time.
>> As soon as we get up in the air I change my watch in anticipation of 
>> landing at 6am. Approximately 3am Eastern Time the stewardess turns 
>> on all the lights and announces that there is a medical emergency.
>> Was there a doctor or an EMT on the plane? No answer... crickets...
>> A couple minutes goes by and it's starting to sound a little more 
>> desperate again the call for an EMT or doctor or now ANYONE with ANY 
>> sort of medical training...
>> 
>> I am thinking holy crap someone's got a bum ticker. I wasn't sure 
>> what I could do but I was trained as ALL in the Navy are, to be a 
>> Naval Firefighter, and I had specialized training as a medical/damage 
>> control first responder. Keep in mind in a military mindset/time of 
>> war priorities are a little different than in the civvie world--you 
>> let people die to save the ship if you had to... so my training was 
>> crude at best and at least a couple years out of practice now. I got 
>> up to see what I could do to help. I walk back there and there's this 
>> guy playing with the blood pressure cuff on this poor lady. She was 
>> maybe 30, about 16 weeks pregnant and had passed out. He asked me if 
>> I was an EMT and I couldn't help but laugh. No but I play one on 
>> tv... So the stewardess's are completely useless, he's volunteer fire 
>> fighter with basic first aid, but he couldn't find her pulse. I 
>> suggested the carotid artery and he asked me where it was! (and I 
>> caught him using his thumb)
>> 
>> I always try to generate some sort of conversation with the patient to 
>> distract them. You chat them up a little while observing a few 
>> things. Respiration, color/claminess of the skin, pupils and so on.
>> I crack jokes... Ma'am I've got some bad news for you, you have no 
>> pulse so therefore you must be dead. She thought that was pretty 
>> funny. I took her pulse and it worried me. 90+bpm and weak. The 
>> stethescope was crap so I couldn't get a decent blood pressure. They 
>> got the oxygen out and made her lay down--I basically treated for 
>> shock while I was gathering info. Stewardess comes up and wants to 
>> know on behalf of the captain how serious it was--did we need to land?
>> I made it very clear that I was in NO WAY qualified to answer THAT 
>> question but I suggested getting an FAA doc on the radio and giving 
>> the stats. She was pregnant, no bleeding, no history of diabetes, no 
>> gestational diabetes with her first kid, I asked her if she had a good 
>> meal recently and she had. No history of anemia and no history of low 
>> blood pressure. She asked for some ginger ale and we gave it to her 
>> and her pulse slowly came down to about 60 (I monitored every 5
>> minutes) and was much stronger. I was thinking she had low blood 
>> pressure and stood up too quickly in the bathroom. The doc on the 
>> ground made the call that there was no need to make an emergency 
>> landing, thanked me and that was about it.
>> 
>> What bothered me was that I was the most medically qualified person on 
>> the plane... considering what I know... very little--that is really 
>> damn scary. If she had a broken bone or was bleeding horrendously I 
>> could deal with that. I could even do CPR... but that's about it.
>> Jesus Christ I think I was more scared than she was. I told her when 
>> taking her pulse that I usually didn't hold hands on the first date, I 
>> kept her laughing so she wouldn't see how scared shitless I was.
>> 
>> Additionally--WHAT THE HELL KIND OF TRAINING DO THESE FLIGHT 
>> ATTENDANTS GET? They give those people AED's!!! I mean if it was me 
>> in that situation I would have nightmare scenarios of one of them 
>> yelling "CLEAR!"
>> 
>> They seemed almost in a state of panic.
>> 
>> EMT's were waiting when I got there I turned over my observations and 
>> they wisked her away in an ambulance.
>> 
>> Thank God it worked out. I got no sleep though.
>> 
>> Chris
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