Good Job Dr Prashant Bharadwaj! Timely Intervention by Doctor saves passenger's life mid-air

Mumbai: A potential heart attack aboard a Delhi-Mumbai IndiGo flight on Friday turned into a life-saving moment, thanks to the prompt intervention of Dr. Prashant Bharadwaj. As per accounts, the medical emergency occurred approximately 45 minutes before the flight was scheduled to land in Mumbai.

A man who suffered suspected heart attack onboard a Delhi-Mumbai flight on Friday was saved due to the timely intervention of a doctor, sources said. The incident took place when IndiGo flight 6E 6814 was in the air and about 45 minutes short of landing in Mumbai.

An IndiGo airline spokesperson said the passenger experienced breathlessness, and that the flight had a normal landing.

Dr Prashant Bharadwaj, a doctor with Tata Motors, was travelling to Mumbai for some work when he heard a scream asking for help.

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"A family member of the person who fell unconscious was calling for help. The crew asked for a doctor onboard and I immediately took my first aid box and rushed to the said passenger with some medications," Bharadwaj told PTI.

The crew also brought along necessary first aid and the patient, who developed unconsciousness and low blood pressure apart from profuse sweating, was stabilised, he said.

"I sat with the affected passenger for the rest of the flight. He was asked to take further medical care upon landing," the doctor said.

The airline spokesperson said the affected passenger was attended by the doctors at the airport.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a doctor of Western Command Hospital, Chandimandir onboard a Pune-Chandigarh flight saved the life of a 27-year-old critically ill man by resuscitating him and requesting an emergency landing in Mumbai.

Major Simrat Rajdeep Singh, a medical officer with the Western Command Hospital, Chandimandir (Haryana), said while he was travelling from Pune to Chandigarh by an Indigo flight on Monday, a co-passenger, who boarded in Goa, started experiencing respiratory distress mid-air-at-an-altitude of 39,000 feet. “I asked about the previous medical history of the patient, who was from Belgaum, from his brother who was also travelling with him. The medical reports showed the patient has small kidneys with poor renal function,” Singh.

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