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06/19/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Doctors demand improved heart emergency guidelines on planes, propose recommendations

If you ever have a heart attack on an airplane, it may very well be your last trip. Cardiac arrest is responsible for 86 percent of in-flight events resulting in death, despite it accounting for only 0.3 percent of in-flight emergencies. According to the task force lead by Professor Jochen Hinkelbein, this is because the […]

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