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Wow! We know so little of the passengers preboard health... We have no clear indication what her problems were in-flight other than the first-responders. She also could have had embolism or a stroke... Did the healthcare worker hear her heart rhythms? And I agree with the others, AED may have done very little without essential EMT equipment. The article stated she was a diabetic, she could have been going into post-prandial glucose shock which would have also caused heart palpitations and sometimes inability to breathe. The flight attendants did make the call to deliver O2 and although O2 may have not given her relief neither did defib. A 44 year old diabetic woman could have had silent myocardial ischemia leading to cardiac arrest... The riskiest thing to do to her is cool her down. But only a cardiologist should make that call...
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