For in-flight medical emergencies.

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For in-flight medical emergencies, carriers have extended automatic external defibrillators (AED's) to deal with unanticipated cardiac arrest, and they have arranged for telephone links to doctors forward the ground for in-flight advice. The nearest step is to provide a real time readout of the patient's vital signs, as well as a televised picture of the patient to the ground-based physician. This so-called "telemedicine" technology is just emerging. It takes advantage of satellite communications (SATCOM) to provide the vital link (see ASW, March 13) U.K.-based foreign Diagnostic Technologies Ltd. appears to be first onward the scene with a practical device to implement telemedicine. Trials begin with interested airlines later this year.

To unfold the technology, airlines will have to find cabin storage space for an equipment coachman's seat that measures about 12 inches wide by way of 9 inches tall by 10 inches astute It may not be possible to shrink the size and weight of the receptacle by much. Kate Murphy, director or marketing for RTD explained that miniaturized state-of-the-art electronic ingredients already are used, and the medical equipment, as it is as the blood pressure blow and the 12-lead electrocardiogram (EKG) really cannot be miniaturized.

Since more nation are travelling with pre-existing medical conditions, and with the airlines in succession the receiving end of lawsuits for not having adequate medical capability aloft, Murphy believes telemedicine is a means to provide better diagnostic and "first response" care, while taking the crushing off cabin staff, who are not licensed medical practitioners (In the early days of air travel, flight attendants oftentimes were nurses, until the demand for succors in World War II conclusioned the nascent practice). >> Murphy e-mail kate@rdtltd.com <<

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