Young doctor saves life of passenger on train: he had been taken ill. Resident performed cardiac massage.
She performed cardiac massage, effectively saving his life. The protagonists of the story, which occurred a few days ago on a train from Rome to Milan, were a young first-year resident at the Campus Biomedicine in Rome and a 65-year-old traveler, whose name the young professional does not know but only remembers the few words the man said as soon as he came to: “Thank you, this was needed”.
Ines Carrato, originally from Vallo della Lucania, in the province of Salerno, graduated in medicine last year at the Campus and was admitted to the specialization course in emergency and urgency medicine at the same university, last March 6 boarded a train "leaving from Rome to reach my brother in Milan".
“And I found myself on the train by chance because I changed my ticket, anticipating the departure,” she says. “Just before Florence, the loudspeaker asked for a doctor to be present in carriage 3,” she continues, “and I immediately went there.
I found a man sitting in the armchair, taken ill, who was already being assisted by two colleagues: a neurologist and a general practitioner."
“A few minutes later the passenger collapsed, sliding off the seat,” he explains, “and I decided to give the man cardiac massage. He recovered immediately.”
In Florence the man got off the train to go to the hospital: “I don’t remember his name,” he concludes, “but only that thank you he said as soon as he recovered.”
The President of the University and of the Policlinico Campus Bio-medico Foundation, Carlo Tosti, has announced a letter of commendation for Dr. Ines Carrato.
For Tosti, the episode "is the best proof of the quality of the training of the medical school of the Campus, but above all it confirms the values that inspire the activity of the University and the Polyclinic at every level".
Article published on March 11, 2023 - 17pm
