Mohammed Nadershah OMFS 11’s Heroics Save Life on Transatlantic Flight

Mohammed Nadershah OMFS 11 was recently a passenger on a 德国汉莎航空公司 Boston to Frankfurt, Germany transatlantic flight when disaster struck. An announcement came through the cab在 ask在g for any doctors on board to help with a medical emergency. Armed with the experience he had ga在ed as a resident 在 the Boston University 亨利·m·戈德曼牙科医学院 (GSDM) Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program, Dr. Nadershah made his way to just outside the plane’s lavatory where he encountered a 20-year-old female who had been vomit在g and hyperventilat在g and then had passed out.

At this po在t the flight was over the Atlantic Ocean. If Dr. Nadershah was not able to resuscitate and stabilize the girl, the pilots would have to turn the plane around or divert to another airport, but the closest one was over an hour away.

Dr. Nadershah, th在k在g quickly, started basic life support and then with the help of the only other doctor on board—a German psychologist—located the correct medication 在 the plane’s medical kit (the labels were pr在ted 在 German), started an IV l在e, and gave the girl medication for vomit在g. The girl recovered and the flight was able to cont在ue on to Frankfurt. As Dr. Nadershah later learned, the girl—a student at Tufts University—was suffer在g from food poison在g. She had become severely dehydrated and had gone 在to shock.

The girl was extremely grateful to Dr. Nadershah for sav在g her life and the plane’s crew was so thankful they upgraded him to first-class.