Darwin Award - Paramedic student shocks classmate

They both should have been kicked out of the class. :rolleyes:

I sure hope that isn't a sign of EMS for the future. I mean, I could see that happening in New Jersey, but Florida is the birthplace of ALS. Think they would weed these kids out a little better.

Back to the short ambulance...
 
Dumb ***.

LMAO....cant help but laugh though....other peoples stupidity is funny to me!!
 
Um yea, sounds like rejects from my medic class...I bet they all have to learn the magic word now:"Clear!!!!" and hopefully no one else finds out just how well those defibrillators work. The thing is, why cant our pt's be so easy to work....oh well I guess thats why we have asystole...
 
TTLWHKR said:
They both should have been kicked out of the class. :rolleyes:

I sure hope that isn't a sign of EMS for the future. I mean, I could see that happening in New Jersey, but Florida is the birthplace of ALS. Think they would weed these kids out a little better.

Back to the short ambulance...
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I really expected an aweome picture award from you. :)
 
not the smartest thing to do

i'd like to crank this thread up a few joules, go here

After Bruce is hit by the truck and the paramedics are shocking him back to life, he is on wet ground. Factually, you cannot use a defibrillator on a wet surface or everyone around will be shocked. [The defibrillator has two paddles. The current coming from one of them looks for the easiest way to earth and by far the easiest way is the second paddle. Secondly, it does not matter what voltage you apply to a wet surface, you cannot electrocute anyone standing on that surface unless some part of their body above the feet is grounded. You cannot be shocked if the voltage does not have a path through your body. Corrected by tw_stuart
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comments?

~S~
 
MMiz said:
I really expected an aweome picture award from you. :)
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That student will never live that down. it will always be "hey, arent you the one that defibed one of your class mates?"

i couldnt help but laugh either.
 
Whacker,

AWESOME award, but I was thinking you'd make this EMT-CCFCCP an award. I'll take the award though :)
 
MMiz said:
Whacker,

AWESOME award, but I was thinking you'd make this EMT-CCFCCP an award. I'll take the award though :)
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:excl: Now see, that can be the award that could be handed out at the annual EMTLife Gathering. :excl:
 
MMiz said:
Whacker,

AWESOME award, but I was thinking you'd make this EMT-CCFCCP an award. I'll take the award though :)
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EMT-who dee whatin? :unsure:
 
Yeah... we had this beaten into our head.... if you want to defib the manuquin, fine.... Paddles go in the air, to the chest, shock, pick them up... hit charge again or put them away. Never, ever, ever set them down anywhere but the monitor, and devote all you attention to them when they are in your hands...

Jon
 
One of our firefighter drivers (a firefighter who drives for our ambulance squad) was in EMT class last night and fired an epi pen into his own thumb... they put a live one in with the trainers...
 
That sucks bad. Did they get'em a bandaid?
 
My worst fear during class was sustaining ANY injury, no matter how small.

All I needed was 18 students finally realizing their dream and getting to "practice" on a real live patient.
 
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Darwin Awards supposed to be post-mortem?
 
I think it was an "Honerable mention" --- and to win a Darwin award, the rules specify that you must "remove yourself from the gene pool" - you don't have to be dead, you just can't be able to re-produce.

Jon
 
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