What happens if I or someone I love has a life-threatening medical event on an airplane? Part historical narrative and part memoir, SHOCKED answers this perplexing question in the true but yet-untold story of how in 1998, life-saving defibrillators, now commonplace on the ground, were placed not into the hands of medical professionals, but flight attendants.
An entire lifetime of seemingly unrelated unusual events, or yes, "miracles" - in his own life, and in the lives of others - ultimately led to the survival of so many people who experienced dreaded, deadly, cardiac arrest on the ground, and at the worst of all possible locations - 35,000 feet..
SHOCKED tells how he interacted with a tough corporate world and government bureaucracy to pioneer the defibrillator program.
David McKenas became responsible for the health and safety of the millions of passengers who fly each year.
As a renowned aerospace medicine specialist and corporate medical director for the largest airline in the world, Dr.
One was given new physical life, and the other, peace, direction and a renewed courage to live.
Robert Giggey, and his flight attendant rescuer, Shawn Lynn, were both \'reborn\' that day.
Mr.
SHOCKED also tells of the very first dramatic \'resurrection\' of a passenger in 1998 on a flight leaving for Mexico, oddly just days after the defibrillator was placed on the plane.
What happens if I or someone I love has a life-threatening medical event on an airplane? Part historical narrative and part memoir, SHOCKED answers this perplexing question in the true but yet-untold story of how in 1998, life-saving defibrillators, now commonplace on the ground, were placed not into the hands of medical professionals, but flight attendants
