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11-03-2009, 01:28 AM
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Anyone actually personally experience 2nd hand defib?
As in "Ready....charging....CLICK....CLEAR!"...
 
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11-03-2009, 02:26 AM
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Forum Deputy Chief
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I witnessed an ED tech get shocked twice by a pts AICD, but that is as close as I've come.
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11-03-2009, 10:05 AM
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I've never seen it...
...but when they zapped a guy on a metal spinboard in a wet gutter, you can bet it was a chorus line of us getting up and out when they yelled "CLEAR!".
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11-03-2009, 11:47 AM
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Legal Beagle
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That sounds like a good way to create a whole raft of new patients. Some things, you just don't want to f*** around with.
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11-03-2009, 12:13 PM
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I want to hook up the defibrillator to the doorknob at work.
Walk in "emergencies"...
Knock-kno......
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11-03-2009, 03:51 PM
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They guy who got shocked by the AICD jumped, and said it was strong enough he could feel it, but it more surprised him than hurt.
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11-03-2009, 03:57 PM
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Jaded Misanthrope
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I have. Back when I was still working in EMS, I was knocked off a patient in the emergency department after the resident running the resuscitation failed to call "CLEAR". Zero warning at all: He just charged the defib and fired it. Both me and the guy who were bagging got a nasty zap, but I caught the brunt of it (since I didn't have the ET tube and BVM as insulators). It was a little like what happens when you get zapped inadvertently touching a 120 volt electrical cord. Apparently (from what I was told...I'm a little fuzzy on the exact sequence of events) my legs buckled from under me, I went face first into the side of the bed and slid back on the floor. Afterwards, I found myself on the floor and the attending was standing over me going "Are you OK? If you want to punch *the resident* I won't say anything." I was no worse for the wear besides a bloody nose and some aching muscles.
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11-03-2009, 03:57 PM
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when I was growing up, we were so poor, I had to use my brother's AED. It didn't even fit. Now I am rich enough to own my own AED.
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11-04-2009, 12:29 AM
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Oh, USAFMEDIC! Were you wearing gloves?
 First time I defibbed a guy his knees came up and whacked me. No zap. I almost remember the two times I got house current, though... |
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11-04-2009, 04:36 AM
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