Recent content by exon111

That's what I was thinking too.

Neither do I, that's why I'm asking :) I just can't figure out what you're supposed to do with all the drugs when all you have is an AED. Some airlines are starting to put Philips FR2+ ECG equipped AEDs on their aircraft, but they are still a very small minority. FAA requires an AED so they...

If you make contact with the emergency phone number listed on the Medaire kits, you are released from all liability and it transfers to their physicians. This explains it better: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1119072

Most domestic airlines carry Medaire EMK kits: http://www.medaire.com/comm_kits.html International carriers often have either Medaire enhanced-EMKs or Banyan Stat-kit 700 or 900s. All of these kits are full of ACLS drugs, but the planes are only equiped with an AED. The flight crew is not...

The FAA requires larger commercial aircraft to carry ALS drugs like epi and lidocaine, but many of their AEDs don't display an ECG readout. Hypothetically, if you are on a plane with a drug bag and an AED, could you push ALS drugs based on the AED's decision to shock or not? If the AED says...