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Article: Lawsuit fears spur airlines into protecting heart-attack victims
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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AIR travellers with heart problems will get a reassuring boost
next year when American Airlines becomes the third airline to carry
heart- shocking machines - known as defibrillators - on its longer
flights.
The airline is ordering 300 of the portable devices, which will
be introduced in March 1997. It is training 2,300 flight attendants
to use them.
The American Airlines move comes a month after the Federal
Aviation Authority (FAA) approved the use of defibrillators on
domestic flights in the US. It is thought that the airline is
attempting to head off possible lawsuits by passengers who received
inadequate treatment during medical emergencies.
"The safety of passengers is our paramount ...