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Airport defibrillator saves heart attack victim
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A 62-year-old traveler who suffered a heart attack aboard a plane departing Phoenix was saved by a fellow passenger and an airline employee.
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The Ohio man was the 19th person resuscitated at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport since the installation of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) in December 2000. He was reported today to be in stable condition.
According to airport authorities, on Wednesday night a Mesa Airlines flight, operating as US Airways Express, was pulling away from the gate when the man collapsed.
Another passenger, an off-duty paramedic, checked the man for a pulse, didn’t detect a heartbeat and then began CPR. After the pilot pulled the plane back to the gate, a Mesa Airlines employee retrieved an AED and used it.
Phoenix fire paramedics on bicycles arrived in less than three minutes and determined that the man’s pulse had been restored.
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