Still smiling, man who had 28 heart attacks in one day

www.timesonline.co.uk ^ | November 26, 2005 | Nigel Hawkes

[billorites]

He's gonna have a bitch of a time buying life insurance.

[atomicpossum]

Mr Kerswell, a shower engineer,

A....plumber, perhaps?

[Wiz]

He probably has survived more than Arafat :-D

[lunarbicep]

"shower engineer" was new to me too

[Fzob]

You're probably correct. In Europe, engineer does not have the same meaning as in the US. I interview a quite a bit and nearly all applicants from Europe, and a bit east, call themselves engineers if they had trade school. It's similar to boiler operators and heavy equipment operators calling themselves engineers in the states.

[Last Dakotan]

A....plumber, perhaps?

I don't recall any shower engineers in differential equations class.

[DoughtyOne]

Al Bundy, I wondered what you've been up to...

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yeah, that's weird. I wonder what this guy did for Senior Design.

[lunarbicep]

He probably has survived more than Arafat

but gaining on Fred Sanford

[DoughtyOne]

After 28 cardiac arrests you begin to winder if this guy wasn't meant to go.

[raybbr]

AN ENGINEER has survived 28 cardiac arrests in a single afternoon, after he was resuscitated on each occasion using a defibrillator.

Our company, with over 300 employees, won't spend the $2000 to buy a portable difribillator to have at work. We have already sent two guys to the hospital with heart attacks. It's a good thing they both made it.

[nevergore]

Start a fund then and get each employee to contribute $10 a piece....Then with the extra $1K send 5 employees to Red Cross CPR class.....

[lunarbicep]

Our company, with over 300 employees, won't spend the $2000 to buy a portable difribillator to have at work. We have already sent two guys to the hospital with heart attacks. It's a good thing they both made it.

contact your companies insurer. $2,ooo vs. a life insurance payout is a no brainer

[JRios1968]

gaining on Fred Sanford

[macmedic892]

Here's how us paramedics do it

Charge the defibrillator to 360 joules
Say "I'm clear, you're clear, everybody clear"
Whaa-thwack! <---kinda what it sounds like
(Note the acrid smell of burnt hair and skin.)
Check for a pulse
If you find one,hold hands and sing "You light up my life"... :)

[knak]

ok, dumb question. What's a shower engineer?

[raybbr]

contact your companies insurer. $2,ooo vs. a life insurance payout is a no brainer

We are self-insured. The bean counters couldn't care less about a man's life. It's the $2000 that would bother them.

[raybbr]

Start a fund then and get each employee to contribute $10 a piece....Then with the extra $1K send 5 employees to Red Cross CPR class.....

Interesting idea. Although, I doubt I could get more than fifty or so to participate. Half of them speak spanish, Chinese, Bosnian, or some other language. I couldn't possibly convey the meaning of what I am trying to do to them.

The rest would look at it as the company's responsibility. "Why should I give ten bucks? Make the company pay for it."

[macmedic892]

And when you're watching TV, if the EKG looks like this:
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1) they're not really doing CPR (which shows up on the monitor as an up-and-down waveform, really!)
2) there is absolutely no reason to shock
3) this is an indication of death, except for a few particular cases, and that efforts can be ceased