Could life-saving emergency medication be missing from your flight?
The Ingrassia family had one of their best ever vacations in Aruba last year until their return flight home to Long Island.
Luckily a nurse was on the flight and two other passengers had Epi-Pens. They saved Luca, whose airways were about to close, the Ingrassias said. "GMA" called six major airlines. Three of those airlines – Alaska, JetBlue and American - said they now routinely carry epinephrine auto-injectors onboard even though they are not required.
Having epinephrine premeasured in an auto-injector makes it “easy to use,” Varshavski said. “Most lay people with basic instruction could figure it out themselves.” Epinephrine is among the exempted medications. If the emergency medical kit on Varshavsk's flight hadn’t contained epinephrine, the passenger “would have either lost their life or had a really bad outcome.”
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