TY - JOUR
T1 - Airplanes
T2 - Medically Underequipped
AU - Bargmann, Eve
AU - Wolfe, Sidney M.
PY - 1981/4/23
Y1 - 1981/4/23
N2 - To the Editor: Each year 300 million passengers travel on American aircraft. According to figures from the Air Transport Association,1 approximately 100 of these passengers die while aboard, and many more become ill. Since qualified medical personnel are on board on a large number of long-distance nights,2 help should be close at hand. But, if a physician answers the call for help, he or she will find that the plane carries no lifesaving medical equipment and no medications — not even a stethoscope. When asked to treat a serious illness, the physician will be provided with a first-aid kit containing. . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
AB - To the Editor: Each year 300 million passengers travel on American aircraft. According to figures from the Air Transport Association,1 approximately 100 of these passengers die while aboard, and many more become ill. Since qualified medical personnel are on board on a large number of long-distance nights,2 help should be close at hand. But, if a physician answers the call for help, he or she will find that the plane carries no lifesaving medical equipment and no medications — not even a stethoscope. When asked to treat a serious illness, the physician will be provided with a first-aid kit containing. . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198104233041728
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198104233041728
M3 - Letter
C2 - 7207564
AN - SCOPUS:0019886825
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 304
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 17
ER -