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BREAKING: Actress Carrie Fisher rushed to hospital in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack - TMZ
Not Princess Leia!
Initech
(99,913 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)hlthe2b
(101,714 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)And to you!
hlthe2b
(101,714 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/star-wars-actress-carrie-fisher-suffers-heart-attack-plane-sources-n699646
Fisher, world-famous for playing Princess Leia in the blockbuster franchise, was rushed to a local hospital after suffering full cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Her condition, sources said, was "not good."
The Los Angeles Fire Department was contacted about just after noon right before United flight 935 landed, and she was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where she was in critical condition, sources said.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Best wishes for her full and speedy recovery.
0rganism
(23,855 posts)it just keeps taking and taking and taking
tblue37
(64,979 posts)superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)It reportedly happened 15 minutes before the plane landed and an EMT on board administered CPR.
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)Worst year of my lifetime, bar none. It's not even close.
Pull through this, Carrie!
Fuk 2016.
Get pissed Carrie. Survive.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)I don't think she has looked well for some time
wishing her and her loved ones the best
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)CPR was used on her during the flight.
Hoping for the best, but fearing the worst.
dhill926
(16,234 posts)does not look good at the moment. she's had a rough and turbulent life. she's strong and funny as hell...hope she pulls through...
nycbos
(6,033 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Oh this is too bad. May the force be with you, Carrie! We love you!
underpants
(182,273 posts)Loved her books. Wish she'd write more.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)At 12:11 pm the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call from LAX for a patient that was in cardiac arrest," Erik Scott, spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, told USA TODAY. "Firefighter paramedics provided advanced life support and aggressively treated the patient whom was transported to a local hospital.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/12/23/carrie-fisher-heart-attack/95806310/?hootPostID=eeb262943ad84c811f81e98f390abaff
Warpy
(110,902 posts)last week and didn't look well, at all.
Cardiac arrest outside a hospital generally provides a poor prognosis unless there was a defibrillator on the plane. It doesn't sound like there was, although there was a doctor and at least one nurse.
I hope she recovers fully, but she'll probably need a lot of time to do so.
2016 continues to suck.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)2:46 PM PT -- We're told when the plane landed paramedics worked on Carrie for 15 minutes with CPR before they were able to get a pulse. She's currently at UCLA Medical Center on a ventilator. http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/23/carrie-fisher-heart-attack-plane/
LeftInTX
(24,549 posts)She is my age, but her voice sounds much older. I was wondering if she is heavy smoker.
(I don't follow celebrities, so I don't know much about them)
Warpy
(110,902 posts)and self medicated with every drug she could find for years until she hit bottom and got diagnosed.
"Postcards from the Edge" was her first book and contains the inner dialogue of an addict. That chapter should be required reading for anyone dealing with an alcoholic or addict in their lives, it's harrowing. The movie was a yawn. The book had its moments.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)She spoke about her mother who recovered from a serious stroke and is doing well.
I don't know how old the podcast is,a lot was about last year's Star
Wars movie.
Lithos
(26,397 posts)Seems like Deep Vein Thrombosis (Clot from sitting too long which breaks loose and causes a heart attack)
Warpy
(110,902 posts)which are on the way to the coronary arteries.
For a while, there were automatic defibrillators on long flights. I don't know what happened to that policy, it was a good one. The quicker you can get electricity to a person in cardiac arrest, the better the prognosis.
But it still can cause a heart attack if bad enough. Having a relative (in this case her mother) who had DVT, as well as being female, and overweight, coupled with the long flight immobility really raises the odds. Made worse if you have alcohol or sleeping tablets, the former making you dehydrated; both increasing your immobility.
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