[LPN1974]

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet...5&path=%21news

[DusktilDawn]

Your link is not working. I do know this story though. Let's try this one:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet...=1137833607005
Very tragic case. Condolences to both families.

[bettyboop]

How awful, those poor children

Why would a ambulance technician not understand what would happen? surly he had training!

gale

[LPN1974]

Thank you DusktilDawn. I couldn't get it to work no matter what I did.
And this story was so heartbreaking. Very sad.

[ICURN_NC]

I just can't believe this. Long before I ever entered the medical field, even I knew that "playing" with a defib was just a bad, bad ideal.

Poor children.

This breaks my heart.

[southern rn]

I live locally to this story. No one around here could believe it either. I keep meaning to try and ask someone what happened. It really is tragic, and even
though I don't think he meant to hurt her, at his age/training he should have known better. He cetainly qualifies for the idiot of the year award if nothing else.

[Judee Smudee]

It is hard to believe a trained person did this. When defib. kits started being placed in easily assessable places I worried about something like this happening. I even considered someone might use one for a weapon. I never dreampt that a medical tech would do it. Always thought it would be someone who did not know what they were doing killing someone.

[BKRN]

How sad for her family and children. I too am shocked that someone in the medical field would not know better than to play with defib paddles. Very sad.

[Nemhain]

I really loved the part where his mother defends him by saying that "...everyone plays on the job, even cops..." yeah, but cops don't shoot at each other as a "prank" and nurses don't go around injecting 20 units of insulin into coworkers just for a laugh (although there have been time I would have liked to... I just never would).

[soliant12]

Originally Posted by Judee Smudee

It is hard to believe a trained person did this. When defib. kits started being placed in easily assessable places I worried about something like this happening. I even considered someone might use one for a weapon. I never dreampt that a medical tech would do it. Always thought it would be someone who did not know what they were doing killing someone.

A manual defibrillator is a lot different than an automatic defibrillator. You couldn't do this with an automatic defibrillator