Oklahoma cardiologist dr. TJ Trak quickly slept from Uganda last month when his team member awakened him to say he needed a doctor.
Trad rushed to a passenger who needed help to find a man who was sweaty and complains of chest pain. The man looked at the doctor and asked anxiously, “Will I die?”
“Not today,” the man said.
He believed that a man in front of him suffered a heart attack, a pain that the doctor was closely familiar with after surviving last year.
Wort also knew he had tools that could help save a man’s life if it was a heart attack: the medicines and the medical devices he had for him because he flew home from a medical mission in Uganda with Cura for World – an organization he founded in the fields.
He also had a pocket-sized electrocardiogram or ecg-to that he never leaves home without his heart attack. The device, a credit card of this size, would be an essential means of understanding the symptoms of a man.
Now he just had to get to work.
Emergency Department
It was within three hours until April 29th. KLM flight to Amsterdam when Trad was directed to an emergency response mode.
The patient stated that on a scale of 1 to 10, his chest pain was 10.
“Do we go down now?” Trade recalled her husband’s wife nervously asking.
Trade realized that the first step was to calm down a Dutch pair, nearby passengers and flight crew.
“I think our training is so wide that you are almost teaching to be the captain of the ship and calm everyone around you,” he said.
Then the Worn created an ambulance department through a row of airplane seats, laid a man with airplane pillows and rose his legs to bring the blood back to his heart.
After releasing blood sugar and complications of blood clots, the doctor used 12 lead ECG from a medical mission journey to assess whether a man was hit by a heart attack. He quickly gave him five drugs, usually used to treat heart attacks.
Carardiamobile Card used by dr. Tj trad. – Cura to the world
Trading then used its personal ECG, an electrocardiogram measuring the heart power plant, to help observe the man’s heart for abnormal rhythms or arrhythmias. Trade kept the device in his wallet, the Carardiamobile card, since last year’s heart attack if he had another heart event.
“The later manifestation of a heart attack is arrhythmia. That’s how people die,” she explained.
Although 12 lead ECGs were very important in confirming that the man had shown the symptoms of a heart attack, the doctor said the card allowed him to constantly monitor arrhythmias within three hours.
The man put his thumbs on the card, which transmitted data on his heart activity to the Trading program via Bluetooth.
Within 45 minutes after he was taking medication, the man’s chest pain and heart rate began to improve, the doctor said.
The right place at the right time
Trad’s heart attack did not allow him to go on his medical mission to Uganda in 2024. In February, he led him to leave for a makeup journey that helped him on the same plane as the man he helped to save.
The doctor said he was in the right place due to a heart attack.
‘I think everything happens for a reason, I really do, ”he said.
During the work, the pilot asked if they should direct the flight to Tunisia after talking to the doctor at the KLM, but Tradition assured the crew that the patient is sufficiently stable to get to Amsterdam.
“We had a nurse who used his vitality every 10 to 15 minutes … And we accepted him to all these things … If we had descended in Tunisia, they would not have done anything other than the fact that he would obviously get it to get heart and coronary arteries to examine or treat hearts and crowns.
The man was stable in the remaining two hours of flight. His chest pain came back when the plane was about to land, but the additional medication solved it, said Trad.
The husband’s wife CNN said Trad and nurse helped prevent her husband’s condition to deteriorate and did an “unforgettable job”.
The Dr. Trading was sitting at the sweater to resume the flight crew. – Cura to the world
When they landed, the man thanked the doctor and his wife hugged him “very, very strictly”.
“She said you were our angel in the sky,” recalled Trad.
KLM said CNN that the plane had safely landed at Amsterdam Airport in Schiphol, where an ambulance was waiting to take her husband to a nearby hospital.
The husband’s wife said he was doing well enough, taking into account the traumatic event. The hospital examined him for 12 hours and did not diagnose his heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism, she said CNN.
Trade believes that this may be due to the fact that he treats the patient in time.
After his heart attack, he had to cancel his Uganda journey last year, saying that he would seem to be a full wheel moment when he helped save the man.
He told the man that it was a pleasure to take care of him and wished him the best before they were catching his connecting flight home.
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