Serious Illness on an Airliner: What To Do

Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 15:14 in Health & Medicine

To help pilots decide whether to land for a medical emergency or safely proceed to the destination, flight attendants can send a sick passenger's vital signs data to a doctor-staffed center via broadband satellites.

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