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Originally Posted by kfisherx
HA HA HA
How can anyone NOT know how to use the AED? You push the ON button and follow directions. If your victim doesn't need the shock, it won't happen. Pretty idiot proof. The very fact that they give out a certification on this device cracks me up.
Sorry, I get your point and am surprised that a trainer wouldn't know where it is... but it is funny to think that anyone might not remember how to use it who has been in the class.
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you're right, it's idiot proof for the general public. But the way it works for them is, turn on, wait until it tells you to check the airway, check for breathing, check for pulse. . . . blah blah. . . . .then finally analyzes. People who have not the first idea what to do, it leads them through basic CPR. But anyone who has been trained in CPR knows those things right off the bat. So, you turn it on, slap on the pads, and clear the body. You don't have to wait for it to tell you to do that.
These women had just been given a scenario: "you have been doing CPR for 5 minutes when someone brings the AED. What do you do?" And they went through the whole thing: check breathing, check. . . . .but you're ALREADY DOING CPR! You KNOW there's no breathing/pulse! Just slap on the pads and clear! They couldn't connect those ideas in their heads under pressure. That's what I find scary. They would stop breathing and chest compressions for the minute or so it takes for the machine to go through all the steps to find out if breathing and compressions are needed.
People lose it under stress. That's what the training is for.