ER doctor: I’ve been the ‘doctor on board’ during an in-flight emergency. Airlines need better medical kits.

I’ve been the doctor responding to medical emergencies on a flight, and the medical kits I used contained minimal supplies.
CBS News

In-flight emergencies raise concerns about airlines' medical kit requirements

Omar Villafranca is a CBS News correspondent based in Dallas. He joined CBS News in 2014 as a correspondent for Newspath. Before CBS, Villafranca worked at KXAS-TV Dallas-Fort Worth, at KOTV-TV the ...
Popular Science

Many airplanes are unequipped for in-flight medical emergencies

This article was originally featured on KHN. In March, a Frontier Airlines flight was headed from Phoenix to Las Vegas when a female passenger stopped breathing. The flight attendant yelled in the ...