AED Question

This question would probably do better being posted on the JEMS sister site but I havn't gotten around to creating an account there so I'm posting it here.

Yesterday I had one of our newer firefighters ask me if it was ok to use adult AED pads on a child. I told him that I could not really answer his question because I have heard two different answers myself. Even in EMT school, I had an instructor that told me I could use adult pads on a child and a different instructor tell me that I could not. So.... maybe someone can give me the real answer???

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Permalink Reply by FETC on November 27, 2009 at 10:20am

John, That was my original point " A child is OK to use the adult pads from the AED as long as they don't touch eachother" I understand what Oldman says as I am also an AHA instructor but it is not OK to use that theory for a pediatric patient (birth to 1).

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