A nurse is being hailed for her heroic actions after she saved a 3-month-old child who had stopped respiratory throughout a flight from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Orlando, Florida.
The nurse, Tamara Panzino, was on Spirit Airways Flight 1691 Thursday evening when child Anjelé suffered a medical emergency about half-hour after takeoff, in accordance with Fox affiliate WOFL of Orlando.
She mentioned she instantly jumped into motion and began massaging the newborn’s chest and legs. The child quickly began respiratory once more.
The information station’s meteorologist Ian Cassette was on the flight and witnessed the incident.
“On my flight again from Pittsburgh to Orlando, a child stopped respiratory three rows forward of me. Fortunately a nurse (Tamara Panzino) was in a position to get the newborn to breathe once more,” Cassette wrote in a sequence of tweets alongside a video of passengers clapping and cheering for Panzino.
Panzino, who has been a nurse for greater than 20 years, advised the information station that it made her “really feel actually good” that she was in a position to assist.
Cassette spoke to the newborn’s dad and mom off-camera. They advised him they had been terrified and had by no means skilled something like that, he mentioned.
“They praised the constructive vitality of the aircraft and the heroic actions of Tamara for saving her,” Cassette tweeted.
The flight landed safely in Orlando. Spirit Airways didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Saturday.
