A Tennessee husband and father died on Thanksgiving after flames burst over his body when hospital staff used defibrillator paddles

yahoo ^ | 12/05/2022

[devane617]

fyi

[EEGator]

Well that’s horrible. Hopefully he felt nothing…

[drSteve78]

RIP. Strange way to die, on a holiday no less.

[hoosierham]

Alcohol disinfectant probably...

[Dr. Franklin]

Better to burn out, than to fade away.

[Red Badger]

Human Spontaneous Combustion?................

[RouxStir]

The only two accelerants that I could see that may possibly have been there under normal circumstances are alcohol and oxygen. He was probably on O2 before coding... not sure why there would have been any alcohol present on the patient unless they just wiped down an area of his body or perhaps spilled the alcohol on the patient or on his bed. O2 could have been leaking under the gown and bedding.

Really a horrible tragedy, especially during the holidays.

[Delta 21]

Hey, how was your Thanksgiving?

[MarMema]

Was he on oxygen?

[Gaffer]

Something is missing in this story, IMO.

[allendale]

Somebody used alcohol based hand sanitizer instead of conducting gel on the defibrillator panels.

[Flick Lives]

“Then they started the paddles, and it just blew up, everything,” Kathy told WKRN. “I saw that, and I just burst out.”

—

From the description, it sounds like high oxygen levels might have resulted in the explosive fire. Horrible.

[FoxInSocks]

died in Tennessee on Thanksgiving day after he caught on fire as hospital staff attempted to use a defibrillator on him

If they were defibrillating, he was “dead” before being burned, as he was in cardiac arrest. I guess they got a pulse back. He was probably pretty sick. Tragic story.

The presence of oxygen in therapeutic quantities isn’t an issue — it’s in use all the time, particularly during a resuscitation effort.

I’ve seen defibrillation pads arc and catch fire once, when they were damaged under CPR compressions.

[Fresh Wind]

Somebody used alcohol based hand sanitizer...

I once watched a guy sanitize his hands and then he lit a cigarette.

Poof!

[TheElectionWasStolen]

With too many now rejecting the jab, the medical community has to resort to more draconian measures.

[robowombat]

My late wife’s alcohol and tobacco addicted father detonated a fair explosion in his hospital room. He was on oxygen while recovering from one of his numerous heart attacks but his comment ‘Nobody gonna keep from my smokes.’ was followed by pulling his oxygen mask off and lighting up as the pure oxygen pumped out. All he got was minor singe burns but the blast set the room on fire and led to a mass evacuation of old Charlotte Memorial Hospital. He should gotten a ton of criminal charges but the hospital people knew he would show up smirking in court in a wheel chair with an oxygen tank and a weeping wife. He was a truly awful person. Heart attack 6 did him in at age 54.

[DannyTN]

Assisted Spontaneous Combustion

[ryderann]

Can the metal particles in the covid vax short out?

[null and void]

Assisted Resuscitation Combustion (ARC)

[IYAS9YAS]

‘Nobody gonna keep from my smokes.’ was followed by pulling his oxygen mask off and lighting up as the pure oxygen pumped out. All he got was minor singe burns but the blast set the room on fire and led to a mass evacuation of old Charlotte Memorial Hospital.

The reason oxygen is so dangerous is not because it burns, it doesn't, it allows other things to burn more rapidly. Pure O2 won't go bang in a fire, but anything that is flammable can burn hotter and faster because of its presence.