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Old Feb 8, 2016, 5:11 pm
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Cheny
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: LHR, JFK, FRA
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Flyingdoctorwu you placed an IV? ^ I was wondering what is actually available in the medical equipment bag, luckily I never had to use it. My friend once had someone with urosepsis and told me their equipment bag was useless, no drips available.

Slightly off topic but wondering if people have heard of the famous HKG-LHR emergency where a passenger developed a pneumothorax. Rather than diverting the plane there were two doctors available and placed a chest drain using brandy to disinfect, converted a coat hanger to a trochar and used a bottle of evian as an underwater seal. Plane touched down in LHR and patient made an uncomplicated recovery.
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