EMT Gets Prison After Defibrillator Prank Kills Co-Worker

What I can't believe is that when she pointed out not to touch her he did it anyway. Not to mention why were the things on and jouled up? We had to hit a button and set the joules for it to work. Obviously it was not an AED or it would have traced her and wouldn't have sent anything, so it was definitely his doing. MORON!!

I have to agree. He may have had remorse, but that punishment wasn't enough. Lots of lives were changed forever because of something he thought would be funny. My children would have had more sense than that. GEEZ!!

Plus, why didn't the other paramedic STOP, call for help and try to stablize her instead of holding up a limp body and driving. They obviously had all kinds of equipment at hand. (EKG, IV supplies, meds, etc) Then when help arrived, kicking that guy's butt.

Isn't everyone trained to use the AED when they get certified as a health care worker for CPR? Even though I'm not trained to use paddle defibrillators, I still figured with common sense that anything that uses strong electric jolts is not something I would play with as a toy...

IN 1985 I worked in ER at Naval Hospital Orlando when a co-worker did this same thing to himself at the lowest setting, he placed a paddle on each ear and did it. It was hands down the scariest, stuped thing I have ever wittnessed in my life. He lived, no thanks to his own actions.

Stupid. I had a medical student put paddles to both sides of his head once and shock himself into a seizure. Once, when I was working in the ICU, our beds were old and the metal rails went up in one piece. A patient coded. The nurse, instead of taking the time to put the bed rail down, stood on the rail, leaned over and attempted to defib the patient, shocking herself. She was coding on the floor while the patient was coding in the bed. We decided that she needed to work in another area after that.