> Perhaps we can agree there is no point placing it on patients who can talk to you? Yes, that's kind of what I was getting at. Or to put it another way "don'

> Perhaps we can agree there is no point placing it on patients who can talk to you? Yes, that's kind of what I was getting at. Or to put it another way "don't fuck about with the AED because it's not a toy and its safety systems are not infallible". If you stick it on someone unresponsive - and you've got enough reason to suspect they're in a shockable state - it probably won't make them any worse. Like my old trauma instructor used to say, "You can't make dead any deader!"