Carrie Fisher

[TheGrey]

So, Carrie Fisher was on a flight to LA from London when she suffered a major heart attack. She was rushed to UCLA Medical Center. According to her brother, she is now stable but still in the ICU. Apparently, paramedics performed CPR on her for about 15 minutes before she started breathing again.

[cstone]

But I just saw her in Rogue One and she looked as young as the first time I saw her almost 40 years ago.

Too soon?

In all seriousness, I pray she makes a full recovery. She has been funny and absolutely brutally honest in every interview I've heard her do. She is living proof that money and fame do not produce happiness.

[Gman]

There was a period in her life where she did some things that weren't good to her physically or emotionally. I hope she recovers fully, but having a cardiac emergency in-flight like that...not a good situation. She is being reported as "stable", but how much damage has been done?

[TheGrey]

How much damage has been done- that's the question. I don't think this is something that she's going to spring back from, although I do hope she is able to recover as fully as possible.

[theGinsue]

The bad choices she made in her life really took a toll on her. I remember in my youth havng the biggest crush on her after the first Star Wars came out which only magnifies after seeing her in her Return of the Jedi Jabbas palace slave costume.

I don't idolize her anymore, but as an icon from my youth I'd prefer not to lose her so young. I pray she recovers well from this and makes better life choices.

[vossman]

This won't turn out well.

[Great-Kazoo]

The bad choices she made in her life really took a toll on her. . I pray she recovers well from this and makes better life choices.

[cmailliard]

This won't turn out well.

Lucky they were on approach into LAX when she went down. Not sure how much Basic or Advanced Life Support was done before getting to the gate. I hope the pilots ignored the stay in your seat thing as much as possible. International flights generally have Oxygen, AED and ALS pharmaceuticals on board and access to a physician via radio or phone.

But yes, I fear you are correct, I can't see a good outcome from this. Of course stranger things have happened.

[sniper7]

As far as the flights, all of them (United-I know) have great medical kits, trained flight attendants who will request medical professionals but can administer help to a degree. Cockpit access to 24/7 doctors who help make calls in what to do to help the passenger, diverting, continuing to destination etc. luckily for her the time this occurred was close to LAX and the crew got there as quick as possible and had medical staff waiting and immediately on the plane when they arrived. They got the best case scenario for her and heopefully she recovers completely.

if you are traveling a lot or on long distance flights I would highly encourage you to get up and take a walk through the cabin, stretch your legs and arms, get some blood flowing and as long as it's okay for you health wise, take a baby aspirin. That advice saved the life of one of my Flight attendants earlier this year on a long haul flight.

[Gman]

From what I've read, she was having a cardiac issue for a while prior to when she stopped breathing before the landing. This didn't seem like a DVT leading to a PE. We should know more about the details later.

There are some exercises you can do while seated as well as walking that can lessen the danger of DVT.