Emily Raines and her boyfriend, Daniel Shifflett, were on a flight back home to Baltimore after vacationing in the Bahamas when the flight attendant called for anyone with medical experience to help a passenger in distress. Raines, an acute care nurse at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, and Shifflett, a former nurse, didn’t hesitate to volunteer.
As they rushed to help the ailing passenger, they coordinated their plan. "On our way up there I was trying to pregame, like, 'Hey, if we have to do compressions, I need you to do compressions. I'll take care of everything else,'" Raines recalls. They discovered the man had no pulse and began CPR. After several rounds, the man came to. "I would say about seven minutes before we landed is when we got him back to life," she says.
When they landed, the man was rushed to the hospital and the couple was given high-fives by their fellow passengers. Raines says the experience has brought her and her boyfriend even closer together. "We were amped because it's so awesome to have that feeling,” she says, “And afterwards, you're just like, 'Oh wow. We did this. We saved somebody's life!'"
Source: CBS NEWS