Two Florida paramedics may need a refresher after they pronounced a man dead who was very much alive — despite his daughter’s insistence that he was still breathing.
The two first responders with the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department were sent to a home in Pinellas County last week where Thomas Maxwell was in 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,” his daughterBut the two paramedics quickly checked her 65-year-old dad’s pulse and said he was dead.
A sheriff’s deputy who arrived to investigate the supposed death noticed that Maxwell was still breathing.The two first responders with the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department have been placed on administrative duty.About 28 minutes elapsed between the initial call and the arrival of the Largo crew, Clearwater Fire & Rescue told WFLA.
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