Drama at 30,000 feet as rape victim's BP drops
December 28, 2012  11:13
There was nerve-wracking drama at 30,000 feet when Nirbhaya, the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape survivor, went into a near collapse in the air ambulance on the night of Wednesday-Thursday as she was being ferried on a six-hour flight to Singapore's Mount Elizabeth hospital.Nirbhaya's blood pressure suddenly dipped alarmingly, and in what is being considered a medical feat, critical care specialists Dr P K Verma of Safdarjung hospital and Yatin Mehta from Medanta Medicity created an arterial line to stabilize her.

An arterial line is a thin catheter inserted into an artery - used mainly in intensive care - to monitor blood pressure real-time, rather than by intermittent measurements.
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