Team News Riveting
New Delhi, August 28
Call it a story of a twist of fate, a team of doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, brought back to life an infant aboard a Vistara flight on Monday evening after she stopped breathing and suffered a massive cardiac arrest.
As destiny willed, five AIIMS doctors were luckily returning from the Indian Society for Vascular and Interventional Radiology conference in the same Delhi-bound flight. They instantly formed a team to administer critical care to the child and resuscitated her after the crew announced a distress call.
“It was a 2-year-old cyanotic female child who was operated on outside for intracardiac repair. She was unconscious and cyanosed,” AIIMS New Delhi said in an X (twitter). The five doctors from AIIMS New Delhi onboard namely Dr Navdeep Kaur- SR Anesthesia, Dr Damandeep Singh- SR Cardiac Radiology, Dr Rishab Jain- Ex SR AIIMS Radiology, Dr Oishika- SR OBG, Dr Avichala Taxak- SR Cardiac Radiology immediately examined the child.
The pulse was absent, extremities were cold, the child was not breathing with cyanosed lips and fingers. On air- Immediate CPR was started and with limited resources, using skilled work and active management by team Successfully IV cannula was placed, oropharyngeal airway was put and emergency response was initiated by the whole team of residents on board. The baby was brought to ROSC- return of circulation, the tweet added.
It was complicated by another cardiac arrest for which an AED was used. For 45 minutes, the baby was resuscitated and flight was routed to Nagpur. On reaching Nagpur, the child was handed over in stable hemodynamic to the paediatrician. “She is safe. I have followed up,” said one of the doctors.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya hailed the doctors for their “heroic efforts to save a life on the flight”. “Your inspiring act has shown why doctors are called second to God on earth,” said Mandaviya.
