A distress call was issued on a Bengaluru-Delhi flight after a two-year-old girl stopped breathing. Five AIIMS doctors on board examined her and found that she had no pulse and her extremities were cold. They promptly intervened and saved her life. The two-year-old girl, previously operated on for intracardiac repair, had become cyanotic and unconscious.
The team of five senior resident doctors on flight, returning to Delhi, immediately performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) while still in the air. They successfully placed an IV cannula, inserted an oropharyngeal airway, and initiated an emergency response. The child regained circulation but experienced another cardiac arrest, for which an automated external defibrillator (AED) was used. The doctors resuscitated her for 45 minutes until the plane was diverted to Nagpur, Maharashtra, where she was handed over to a pediatrician in…
