Apperatly I did this? I'm in the basic emt lab class and we were testing out of cardiac arrest with AED. I'm doing cpr on the dummy, get the AED out turn it on, put it on the dummy and continue.. Then the lab aid says "look at your pads." I had them in the correct spots, I didn't know what the problem was. In class they never mentioned placing the pads on "backwards" even in the reading I never seen this. So I said to her "what's wrong with them." Then she tells me "They are backwards, buddy" (in like a wow.. you're an idiot, tone. Which I didn't like too much.) so I just switched the spots of them.
Well, that was an "auto fail." Because I didn't use the AED properly I guess. She failed me, I retook it 5 minutes later with a different lab aid and got everything right. But I still don't understand what she meant by backwards. Like I said they never mentioned the pads being placed on backwards before the test. She said look at the pictures on the pads they looked the exact same, so I don't know what the hell she meant. I couldn't ask because she had another student right behind me, and I forgot about it after.
So what would happen if they pads were placed on backwards and they were used on a patient? And how do they even go on backwards?
Well, that was an "auto fail." Because I didn't use the AED properly I guess. She failed me, I retook it 5 minutes later with a different lab aid and got everything right. But I still don't understand what she meant by backwards. Like I said they never mentioned the pads being placed on backwards before the test. She said look at the pictures on the pads they looked the exact same, so I don't know what the hell she meant. I couldn't ask because she had another student right behind me, and I forgot about it after.
So what would happen if they pads were placed on backwards and they were used on a patient? And how do they even go on backwards?
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