Physician-in-Training Saves Man's Life at 35,000 feet

Surat: A routine flight turned into critical medical emergency at an altitude of 35,000 feet over the Atlantic when a US resident’s health suddenly deteriorated. Yet, challenging the medical crisis out, a doctor hailing from Surat thought on his feet and saved the patient’s life.

Jim Rogers (76), a resident of Wisconsin in the US, was flying on the Delta Flight 11 London-Minneapolis flight. His health deteriorated when his blood pressure abruptly shot up to 200-120 and blood started to ooze out of his right eye.

Promptly coming to the sufferer’s rescue, Dr Aditya Shah, who was on the same flight as him immediately gathered all the medical supplies from the plane’s first aid kit with the help of a veteran nurse Anne Henson and Hennepin County EMT Blake Tyra and arranged blood pressure medication from a fellow passenger.

During the flight, Dr Shah managed to create an eye-patch for the patient. "The flight crew had given us sleeping masks with an elastic strap on the back so I used one of those to secure the icepack and bandage over Jim's eye in hopes it would stop the bleeding," Dr Shah said. "Thankfully, after a while, it did."