Ramp employee reported concern with flight crew not allowing medical personnel access to an ill pass...

Narrative:

Emts were called to meet arrival aircraft; reported that passenger had fainted onboard and vomited. When aircraft arrived at the gate captain had made the decision that since the passenger was no longer in distress that everyone would deplane and emt could treat passenger last in the back of the aircraft. Emts were upset about this decision and complained that it is not proper policy to delay medical care of a passenger to deplane an aircraft. This is not an isolated incident and needs to be addressed.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Ramp employee reported concern with flight crew not allowing medical personnel access to an ill passenger until after other passengers disembarked the aircraft.

Narrative: EMTs were called to meet arrival aircraft; reported that passenger had fainted onboard and vomited. When aircraft arrived at the gate Captain had made the decision that since the passenger was no longer in distress that everyone would deplane and EMT could treat passenger last in the back of the aircraft. EMTs were upset about this decision and complained that it is not proper policy to delay medical care of a passenger to deplane an aircraft. This is not an isolated incident and needs to be addressed.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1494609
Time
Date	201711
Place
Locale Reference	DEN.Airport
State Reference	CO
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Ramp
Events
Anomaly	Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness