(CNN) — A retired nurse got here to assistance from a child who had stopped respiration on a Spirit Airways flight final week from Pittsburgh to Orlando.
An announcement shortly after requested if there was a health care provider on board. The retired nurse ran to the again of the aircraft to see if she might assist.
“I did not know what I used to be coping with,” Panzino instructed WESH. “I noticed an toddler. The top was simply again. And blue lips … And my coronary heart simply dropped.”
Panzino requested some questions and started working, handing the three-month-old child to the daddy.
“He held it whereas I did a sternal rub, form of an aggressive shake of the chest. Get the newborn to react by pinching it. Making an attempt to make it cry or take a deep breath,” Panzino instructed WESH.
The newborn’s shade got here again, and Panzino didn’t should carry out CPR.
The incident occurred on Spirit flight 1691 from Pittsburgh to Orlando on Thursday, the airline confirmed.
“We prolong our deepest gratitude to Tamara for coming to the help [of] our visitors, and we applaud our crew for his or her fast response,” the airline mentioned in an announcement supplied to CNN Journey.
“Our flight attendants are educated to reply to medical emergencies onboard and make the most of a number of sources, together with speaking with our designated on-call medical professionals on the bottom, utilizing onboard medical kits, and receiving help from credentialed medical professionals touring on the flight,” Spirit mentioned within the assertion.
Panzino mentioned the airline had every part the staff wanted to reply on board.
She mentioned they knew inside a pair minutes that “we had been house free.”
“The newborn was going to be good. The colour got here again. I heard respiration sounds. Heard a heartbeat. Oh, my gosh, whole reduction.”
High picture: A Spirit Airways flight takes off on the Orlando Worldwide Airport in November 2020. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune Information Service/Getty Pictures)