Nick we have heard of operations being carried out on one of our many
cruises. The Hospital on board is superb. see my other reply.

Should a patient require a blood transfusion and they run out of their own
supply, registered and up to date blood donors are called. I know because I
have heard it on a cruise.

Mike



"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ...

In article ,
stuart noble wrote:
On 01/09/2013 17:29, Sacha wrote:
It's stange to think that someone who was such a TV giant as he has
gone, working up to the very last. His family must be shattered.

A cruise liner is probably not the best place to have a heart attack

It's a long way from being the worst place. Given their typical
customer base of unfit old fogies, and that it is a high-end and
large cruise liner, it will be set up for just such an event.
I should be surprised if the doctor in charge were not reasonably
expert on the initial treatment of heart attacks ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.