Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Emergency worker puts a prawn on the patient's chin before using a defibrillator - Patient dies


UK - An ambulanceman put a prawn on the chin of a heart-attack patient about to be given an electric shock — and joked: “Let’s see if we can cook this,” a medical panel heard yesterday.
Technician John Jones took it from a colander in the victim’s kitchen, it was claimed.
After the man had been shocked by a defibrillator, Jones said: “360 joules won’t cook a prawn”, a London hearing was told. A colleague tried resuscitation, but the patient — whose wife had been preparing prawn cocktails at their home on the Isle of Wight — later died in hospital. More... Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Shop NBC