Eunmi Cheon, professor of respiratory medicine at Mokdong Hospital of Ewha Womans University. /Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital
A patient suffering from myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism three hours before landing at Incheon International Airport felt chest pain and difficulty breathing on the plane, but received timely emergency treatment and saved his life. The person who quickly provided first aid was Professor Eunmi Cheon from the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Mokdong Hospital of Ewha Womans University.
According to Mokdong Hospital of Ewha Womans University, Professor Cheon boarded a plane from New York to Incheon in the early morning of the 19th of last month. Three hours before the plane landed at Incheon airport, there was an emergency patient on board. A passenger suddenly collapsed, complaining of chest pain, difficulty breathing and dizziness. At that moment, the flight attendants urgently made a medical pager transmission to find out if there was a doctor among the passengers.
Professor Cheon, who had been listening to the broadcast, stepped forward. The patient was examined, blood pressure was measured, and emergency treatment was started. It is said that he was administered oxygen together with an American general practitioner who was on the plane and that additional painkillers such as aspirin and angina pectoris were administered.
Although the symptoms were alleviated to some extent, the patient continued to complain of chest pressure and difficulty breathing. As soon as Professor Cheon landed at Incheon International Airport, he called the emergency room of Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, explained the patient’s condition in detail, and asked them to prepare to receive him. It was difficult to send an ambulance as it was early in the morning, but the patient was said to have been treated by traveling in the guardian’s vehicle.
The patient who arrived at the emergency room was immediately diagnosed with a myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism via an electrocardiogram and would be safely discharged after receiving treatment for about a week. Myocardial infarction is a disease in which the artery supplying blood to the heart is completely blocked, while pulmonary embolism is a disease in which a blood clot blocks the pulmonary artery. Myocardial infarction is a dangerous disease that can lead to death within 1 to 2 hours if the symptoms are severe.
Patients and their guardians posted on the Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital website bulletin board, “Professor Eunmi Cheon appeared to be traveling with her family, but she willingly accompanied her to the hospital after first sending her family to ‘airport” and “(after the weekend) went to his hospital room early on Monday morning and he also visited and checked the patient’s condition. Thanks to that I received good treatment and was discharged.”
Professor Cheon said: “I felt rewarded as an essential member of the medical staff because I was able to help patients as a doctor. “More than anything, I’m grateful that we were able to provide care on time,” he said. “I am also deeply grateful to the flight attendants who actively helped with first aid at that time and to the American primary care doctor who calmly treated the patient together. “I hope that the patient will remain healthier and happier in the future,” he said.
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