Oklahoma D -R TJ Trad cardiologist quickly fell asleep in his flight from Uganda last month when a member of his team woke him up to say that someone needs a doctor.
Trud rushed to the passenger who needed help to find a man soaked in sweat and complain of chest pain. The man looked at the doctor and asked anxiously, “Will I die?”
“Not today,” Trade told the man.
He believed that the man in front of him had suffered a heart attack – a pain that the doctor was familiar with after surviving one last year.
Trud also knew that there were tools that could help save a man’s life if it was a heart attack: medicines and medical devices he had on him because he was flying at home from a medical mission in Uganda with a kura for the world – an organization that establishes clinics in areas of need.
He also had an electrocardiogram of pocket sizes or an ECG, without which he never left his home after his own heart attack. A credit card size device would be a decisive means of understanding a person’s symptoms.
Now he just had to get to work.
Improvised Emergency Department
It was three hours in the flight on April 29 to Amsterdam, when the trade was inserted into an emergency response mode.
The patient said that on one to 10, chest pain was 10.
“Are we landing right now?” Trade recalled that the man’s wife was nervously asking.
Trud realized that the first step was to calm the Dutch couple, the close passengers and the flight crew.
“I think our training is so broad that you are almost learning to be the captain of the ship and to calm everyone around you,” he said.
Trad then created an impromptu emergency compartment through a number of airplane seats, laid the man with an airplane pillows and propped his legs to return blood to his heart.
After excluding the complications of blood sugar and blood, the doctor uses a 12-water ECG from a medical mission trip to decide if the man had a heart attack. He quickly gave him five medicines that are usually used to treat heart attacks.
Kardiamobile map used by D -R TJ Trad. – Cura for the world
Trad then uses its personal ECG – an electrocardiogram that measures the electrical activity of the heart – to help monitor the heart of a person for abnormal shocks or arrhythmias. Trad saved the device, a Kardiamobile map, in its portfolio since its heart attack last year, if there is another heart event.
“The later manifestation of a heart attack is arrhythmia. So people die,” Trade explained.
Although an ECG with 12 leaders is crucial to confirming the man shows symptoms of a heart attack, the doctor said his card allows him to constantly monitor arrhythmias for the next three hours.
The man placed his thumbs on the map and he was transmitting data on his cardiac activity to the application of Trad via Bluetooth.
Within 45 minutes after taking the medication, pain in the chest of the man and the heart rate began to improve, the doctor said.
Appropriate place at the right time
Trace’s heartfelt blow prevented him from going on a medical mission to Uganda in February 2024, which made him go to makeup, which put him on the same aircraft as the man he helped to save.
The doctor said his heart attack had led to the right place at the right time.
“I believe everything happens for a reason, I really do it, “he said.
During the test, the pilot asked if they had to divert the flight to Tunisia after talking to the KLM ground doctor, but Trad assured the crew that the patient was stable enough to reach Amsterdam.
“We had a nurse who accepted his life people every 10 to 15 minutes … And we made him connect with all these things … If we were going to land in Tunisia, they would not do anything different except obviously take it to see their heart,” said, and referring to the catheterization procedure.
The man was stable for the other two hours of the flight. The pain in his chest returned as the plane was about to land, but additional medicines allowed him, said Trade.
The man’s wife told CNN that trade and nurse helped prevent her husband from worsening and did an “unforgettable job”.
Dr. Tj Trad was sitting in a jumper seat to give the flight crew updates. – Cura for the world
After landing, the man thanked the doctor and his wife hugged him “very, very tight.”
“She said you were our angel in the sky,” Trade recalled.
KLM told CNN that the aircraft landed safely at the Amsterdam Shiphol airport, where an ambulance was waiting to take the man to a nearby hospital.
The man’s wife said she was doing quite well, given the traumatic event. The hospital examined it for 12 hours and did not diagnose it with a heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism, she told CNN.
Trud believes that this may be due to his timely treatment for the patient.
After having to cancel his trip to Uganda last year because of his own heart attack, Trad said that helping to save this person felt like a full circle for him.
He told the man that it was a pleasure to take care of him and wished him the best before he ran to catch his connecting flight to home.
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