New Delhi: A 78-year-old woman went into respiratory distress on board an Air India flight from Delhi to London recently after a gummy bear accidentally got lodged in her windpipe. The woman could have choked to death, but for timely action by a doctor couple from Delhi who kept resuscitating the septuagenarian till the time she regained consciousness — a mid-air miracle that filled the passengers on board with joy and relief.
The pilots, meanwhile, managed to secure emergency landing in Budapest where emergency care took over the medical management. Budapest Airport’s AMS (Airport Medical Sevice) posted on its Facebook page later that the gummy bear was removed from the patient’s airway, which helped revived breathing and circulation.
Speaking to TOI over phone from London, Dr Anupam Goel and Dr Misha — the doctor couple who work at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital — said the incident took place on Tuesday. “We were travelling to London to attend a conference on endoscopic surgery. Midway, there was announcement about this woman collapsing suddenly and the need for a doctor. We volunteered to help,” Goel said.
The cause of respiratory distress wasn’t clear initially, the doctors said. The 78-year-old woman, identified as Preetpal Kaur, was unconscious and frothing from the mouth and her pulse was feeble.
“Her blood pressure was also unrecordable. The patient was gasping. Her left pupil was dilated, which suggested neuro involvement. There was also wheezing, which suggested respiratory involvement. The cause of respiratory distress wasn’t clear at that time,” Dr Goel recounted. He added that they put her on intravenous normal saline and started ventilating with AMBU bag mask ventilation and oxygen.
The woman was resuscitated for almost 40 minutes.
01/06/18 Durgesh Nandan Jha/Times of India
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The pilots, meanwhile, managed to secure emergency landing in Budapest where emergency care took over the medical management. Budapest Airport’s AMS (Airport Medical Sevice) posted on its Facebook page later that the gummy bear was removed from the patient’s airway, which helped revived breathing and circulation.
Speaking to TOI over phone from London, Dr Anupam Goel and Dr Misha — the doctor couple who work at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital — said the incident took place on Tuesday. “We were travelling to London to attend a conference on endoscopic surgery. Midway, there was announcement about this woman collapsing suddenly and the need for a doctor. We volunteered to help,” Goel said.
The cause of respiratory distress wasn’t clear initially, the doctors said. The 78-year-old woman, identified as Preetpal Kaur, was unconscious and frothing from the mouth and her pulse was feeble.
“Her blood pressure was also unrecordable. The patient was gasping. Her left pupil was dilated, which suggested neuro involvement. There was also wheezing, which suggested respiratory involvement. The cause of respiratory distress wasn’t clear at that time,” Dr Goel recounted. He added that they put her on intravenous normal saline and started ventilating with AMBU bag mask ventilation and oxygen.
The woman was resuscitated for almost 40 minutes.
01/06/18 Durgesh Nandan Jha/Times of India
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