Two LSU New Orleans medical students help passenger who fell ill on flight
Lauren Bagneris and Heather Duplessis got on their flight to Greece on June 26, potentially saving a life. The pair of Louisiana State University medical students helped a passenger on their flight who got sick. according to WDSU News.
When no answered if there were any medical professionals on board Bagneris and Duplessis identified themselves as medical students from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and helped the passenger. According to a post uploaded on Instagram by Bagneris’s mother, Suzette Bagneris.
LSU Health officials said the unidentified woman had become lightheaded and fell due to hypoglycemia and heat exhaustion. The two students took the woman’s blood pressure, pulse and blood sugar. After getting her to relax, they got her some juice and food and cooled her down while they talked with a doctor on the ground. In a Facebook post, LSU Health wrote that thanks to Lauren Bagneris and Heather Duplessis’ effort, “the patient ended up feeling much better and credits the two talented doctors in the making and their LSU medical education. Way to Geaux Tigers! You do us proud!!!”
Duplessis told the news station, “It kind of reminds you of why they challenge us the way that they do. It’s so we will be able to respond in emergency situations like this.” After graduation, Bagneris wants to work in cardiology, heart health and nutrition, while Duplessis intends to become an OB/GYN and focus on maternal-fetal medicine. Bagneris’ mother shared the story online with a photo of the pair in action wrote, “My daughter Lauren Bagneris and her Soror Heather Duplessis, both 2nd year Med Students at LSU, responded to an emergency call for a medical professional on a plane to Greece,” the mother wrote. “When nobody else stepped up, and saved a woman’s life.”