Posted on 03/04/2023 5:57:23 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — Two paramedics with the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department were suspended after a man they pronounced dead last week was found to be breathing.
The agency said two medics from Station 47 responded to a home in an unincorporated area of Pinellas County Wednesday morning after Thomas Maxwell reportedly suffered cardiac arrest.
“His lips were blue and he was cold but I was doing CPR, and my friend was there and she was doing chest compressions,” said his daughter, Phebe Maxwell told WFLA. “His chest was going up and down and he was making noises, so his lungs were working.”
When the medics arrived, Phebe said they quickly checked her dad’s wrist for a pulse and told them he was gone.
“I’m like ‘He’s still breathing!'” Phebe recalled. “He’s like ‘No ma’am, he’s gone, those are just his body releasing gases.'”
After the medics left, a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office deputy went to the home to investigate Maxwell’s “death” and noticed he was still breathing.
Largo Fire Rescue crews were then called to the home and Maxwell was rushed to the hospital.
“Upon notification of this incident, we immediately removed both fire medics from their normal duties and discontinued their abilities to provide patient care, in conjunction with the county’s medical director,” Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Ehlers said in a statement to News Channel 8.
The two medics who initially responded to the call were placed on administrative duty and were clinically suspended by the Pinellas County EMS Medical Director’s Office. Both the medical director’s office and Clearwater Fire & Rescue are looking into the incident.
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“And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space, ‘cause there’s bugger all down here on earth.”
Remember the case last year when a guy popped back in when they were harvesting his organs, so the Dr’s killed him?
Having already died, crossed over, and returned to this body; I am NOT an organ donor.
Reminds me of the movie “Heaven Can Wait” with Warren Beatty.
Too much work to complete the CPR process - maybe near the end of their shift?
(Lowered medical technician standards? Equity?)
How can you “discontinue their abilities to provide patient care” when clearly, they possessed no such ability.
“Rampart, we’ve defibrillated the patient. He’s in sinus rhythm now.”
How do nursing home “care-givers” abuse so many of their wards - total disdain for life and doing a job right...
The Terri Schiavo school of Paramedics.
Yeah, really. Or the Monty Python “bring out your dead” school.
Mostly alive so one can keep on posting to FR!
“Better a live dog than a dead lion.” Proverbs IIRC.
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