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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
I agree^^^
I will be asking my FIL who is a cardiologist who would know these issues. But both my husband and I asking where is the insulin stick? Because she was more likely to have that issue vs. a outright myocardial infarction. I am not saying she did NOT have sudden cardiac arrest, but her issue was hyperglycemia and conduction is not as good through hyperosmolar blood. That may the reason why the AED did not deliver desired results... O2 would have been better after reviving. But hyperglycemia is nasty to what it does to blood.
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Please do post what you find out.
On the issue of the insulin stick- this raises a new question I would pose to you and others.
On insulin sticks- what if an airline had them in stock and then gave one to a person in an emergency and the person died of insulin shock or some other reaction?
I ask because it seems to me there is a whole other level of liability involved if a good samaritan administers a potential cure to someone that is beyond their own personal expertise to administer and the person suffering dies as a result of the attempted cure.
Or is there? I don't know.
It just seems to me that with a portion of the population having a potential reaction to insulin, any airline employee who administered it (or anyone who did so without an MD or RN and a knowledge of the patient history or how to deal with a bad reaction) would be open to additional liability.
My gut reaction is that the answer is kind of like the no-tolerance policy in many schools right now where administrators mitigate legal liability by not allowing any kind of situational judgement calls that could bring legal questions into play.
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