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En route to a nurse training program in Uganda, students and faculty from the University of San Diego responded to medical emergencies on two flights, putting their skills to the test in mid-air.
Although most people who perform CPR feel satisfaction about having done their duty, the experience can be emotionally challenging and have consequences for one's family and work life.
Lay responders performed CPR and applied AEDs at rates similar to trained volunteer responders dispatched via a smartphone app to handle out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, in a study from Sweden.
A physician runner must help when another runner collapses -- and that's just the beginning of a very long race.
Data from one study showed that 1 in 2 physician airplane passengers assisted in medical emergencies.