While every commercial plane must carry a sealed medical kit, the FAA hasn’t updated the required medications in nearly 20 years. NBC News’ Tom Costello shares more details about one mid-air emergency where a passenger had an allergic reaction but the plane’s medical kit didn’t include an EpiPen.
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A vial of EPI is just fine and cheap. A EPI pen can cost 500 bucks
We NEED MORE DISTANCE between SEATS hence Less PASSENGERS on BOARD , hence LESS profits for The Air Line IndusTry HENCE they wiLL NEVER accepT That KEY : more disTance between sitting Passengers inside of a Air PLane !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
big shock after covid hot mess
Shocking failure of FAA policy- someone asleep at the wheel it appears. Is America a bankrupt broken country in big trouble? I think so and I am glad I no longer and never again will live there!
Hi! I’m doctor dumbshit. I have allergies and I expect everyone including airlines to take care of me when my throat closes up. I have no responsibility to take care of myself when something goes wrong.
It's her own fault for not having her own epi-pen
Thats on the “to do “ list after they get updated flight software
that only makes sense
Right. Let’s give pharmaceutical companies instant revenue boost and airlines a reason to pass cost on to consumers. All because of genetically weak people.
Listen if a peanut, seafood or bee sting etc… is life threatening to you well then maybe God and Mother Nature are both conspiring to correct a genetic mistake.
I am in no way surprised that the airlines have purposefully neglected the health needs of their customers.
getting high on high
Crappy headline, a check and inject epinephrine vial is carried by ambulances too, epi-pens are prohibitively expensive comparatively
Noted .. update the med kits .
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We don't need narcan we don't care to save opioid addicts they criminals