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A nurse and her boyfriend saved an ailing man's life on a flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Baltimore after the man turned purple and fell unconscious.
Emily Raines, who works as an acute care nurse at Great Baltimore Medical Center, and her boyfriend, a former nurse who now works in finance, were on a Southwest flight home from vacation when a flight attendant called for anyone with medical experience.
A passenger was experiencing a medical emergency and the couple sprung into action to aid the unconscious man who no longer had a pulse.
Fellow passengers rushed to help by providing medical equipment the pair could use.
The couple, Emily Raines and Daniel Shifflett, both of whom are trained nurses, sprung into action midway through the flight to revive an ailing passenger
'I could hear the panic in the flight attendant's voice,' Raines, 31, told the Washington Post about the call made by the flight attendant about halfway through the roughly three-hour flight. She said she knew 'this is going to be serious.'
She went on to describe the man's completely purple face as 'quite alarming.'
Raines recalled doing some quick preparation
