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- Title
What to do during inflight medical emergencies? Practice pointers from a medical ethicist and an aviation medicine specialist.
- Authors
Shu Fang Ho; Thirumoorthy, T.; Benjamin Boon Lui Ng; Ho, Shu Fang; Ng, Benjamin Boon Lui
- Abstract
The article discusses on the management of medical emergencies of onboard aircraft passengers. Topics mentioned include the practice pointers from an aviation medicine specialist and medical ethicist, the obligation of a doctor to help once he volunteer, and the open communication and collaboration of the doctor to crew and pilot.
- Subjects
MEDICAL emergency management; AIRCRAFT occupants; AVIATION medicine; PHYSICIANS; RESPONSIBILITY; AIR pilots; ETHICS; AERONAUTICS in medicine; FIRST aid in illness &; injury; MEDICAL emergencies; MEDICAL ethics; TRAVEL; JOB performance; EQUIPMENT &; supplies
- Publication
Singapore Medical Journal, 2017, Vol 58, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0037-5675
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.11622/smedj.2016145