The infant was revived after 45 minutes, and the plane was diverted to Nagpur...
Digital Desk: A two-year-old child's life was saved by a team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, who were "at the right place and at the right time" after the child stopped breathing mid-air on a Bangalore-Delhi Vistara flight on Sunday.
As the five senior resident doctors of AIIMS Delhi were travelling on the same flight, saved the toddler's life by giving emergency medical care.
As per reports, the group of doctors was travelling back to Delhi from Bengaluru after attending a medical conference there. They were travelling on board flight UK-814 of Vistara.
Before the plane was diverted to Nagpur, the flight crew announced a distress call. The distress call was regarding a two-year-old female child who was operated on for intracardiac repair and was unconscious and cyanosed.
The five doctors Drs. Navdeep Kaur, Damandeep Singh, Rishab Jain, Oishika, and Avichala Taxak – responded to the call without delay and began providing emergency care.
AIIMS Delhi stated in a post on X informing about the incident, "The child was examined. His pulse was absent, extremities were cold, the child was not breathing with cyanosed lips and fingers."
The post further read, "On air- Immediate CPR was started with limited resources, using skilled work and active management by the team.
Successfully IV canulla was placed, the oropharyngeal airway was put and an emergency response was initiated by the whole team of residents on board- and the baby for brought to ROSC- return of circulation.”
It was complicated by another cardiac arrest for which an AED was used. The infant was revived after 45 minutes, and the plane was diverted to Nagpur. The child was given to the paediatrician in "stable hemodynamic" upon arrival in Nagpur.
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