Dr. Oz instantly switched from vacation mode to doctor mode.
The doctor-turned-television personality helped a fellow passenger who was in a daze on a JetBlue flight from New York to Mexico on Friday.
“A middle-aged, healthy man was unconscious and we performed the usual triage with a physical exam and vital signs.” Oz told TMZ. After the flight, he recovered: “With oxygen, orange juice and time, he is feeling much better but needs to be thoroughly examined by local doctors.”
The horrific medical incident happened about an hour into the flight to Cabo San Lucas.
The flight attendant called for medical assistance, and Oz rushed to help.
In a video obtained by the outlet, Oz was seen leaning in his aisle seat and speaking to the patient as a flight attendant stood nearby.
Sick passengers were instructed to drink orange juice, as hypoglycemia can cause sudden fainting.
He was also provided with oxygen because it’s “the best medicine we’ve ever used,” Oz added.
Oz, a former Pennsylvania Senate candidate, said the passenger’s condition had improved significantly, and a source told TMZ that Oz had given the man his phone number in case he had another emergency after the flight landed.
The heroic act on Friday’s flight from Australia was not the 64-year-old man’s first time in action while traveling.
In 2018, Oz was called in to help a passenger who collapsed on a flight in New York en route to Las Vegas. Page 6 report.
“A 30-year-old man collapsed on the plane and a stewardess grabbed him,” he said at the time. “I helped him lie on his back and [put] He put his feet up over the emergency exit door and at the same time his pulse and blood pressure began to normalize.”
Oz then performed an impromptu electrocardiogram using the electrode pads of the plane’s automated external defibrillator.
“I didn’t know if he was having a heart attack,” Oz said. “His blood pressure was very low, but his heart rate was very high.”
After the flight, the passenger was taken to hospital and diagnosed with severe influenza.
In 2021, the celebrity doctor again helped a traveller, this time at Newark Airport, where he saw a man collapse to the ground at baggage claim in Terminal A.
A cardiothoracic surgeon, along with a Port Authority police officer, performed CPR on the man as his face turned purple like an eggplant. He told ABC News.
The 60-year-old New Jersey man was then rushed to a local hospital where he was placed in intensive care.
