Shocked: Life and Death at 35,000 Feet
Language: English
Published by David McKenas, MD, MPH May 2021, 2021
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- Title
- Shocked: Life and Death at 35,000 Feet
- Author
- David K McKenas,Dan Reed
- Publisher
- David McKenas, MD, MPH May 2021
- Publication year
- 2021
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- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 1953910467
- ISBN 13
- 9781953910462
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- Non-Fiction
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.
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. Mr. Robert Giggey, and his flight attendant rescuer, Shawn Lynn, were both ‘reborn’ that day. One was given new physical life, and the other, peace, direction and a renewed courage to live.
As a renowned aerospace medicine specialist and corporate medical director for the largest airline in the world, Dr. David McKenas became responsible for the health and safety of the millions of passengers who fly each year. SHOCKED tells how he interacted with a tough corporate world and government bureaucracy to pioneer the defibrillator program. 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.
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Reed is an award-winning business and financial journalist who has spent three decades focused primarily on the U.S. airline industry and related aviation and travel service companies - plus all the workers, unions and legal and legislative issues related to those industries. He worked for the Arkansas Democrat (today the Democrat-Gazette) from 1978 to 1981, the Fort Worth StarTelegram from 1981 to 2002, and USA TODAY from 2002-2010. Today he is a senior contributor for FORBES.com, where he continues to focus on the airline and related industries and is a frequent contributor to other aviation and general interest publications. Reed also operates his own communications consulting firm, advising clients on communications, media, and strategy matters. He is the author of American Eagle: The Ascent of Bob Crandall and American Airlines (1993, St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunn Books) and co-author of American Airlines, US Airways, and the Creation of the World's Largest Airline (2014, McFarland). Reed earned his bachelor's degree in Journalism at the University of Arkansas and his master's degree in Divinity at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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