Originally Posted by animals
At your respective employers, did any of you receive any kind of public health training, infectious (contagious) disease training or anything like that? Meaning, as the one in command of the a/c did anyone train you guys on what to do if a px suddenly becomes violently ill in any way? Like setting up quarantines? Do you have protective equipment for the crew (masks, gloves)? Do you know what to do once on the ground? Do FAs receive this kind of training?
The quick answer is "yes" to all the above. As pointed out, with a VHF phone patch, or SATCOM you have all the additional resources you'd need. From the cockpit, after I set up the phone patch between our doctors and the FA (dispatch & who ever else wants in on the call) I let them tend to the pax, then make a decision to continue or divert after we have all the info.