A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine gives doctors instructions on how best to respond to in-flight scenarios of cardiac arrest, acute coronary symptoms, and strokes, as well as other, less serious conditions. Melissa Mattison, assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
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