NSW Ambulance’s use defended by Chris Minns
NSW Ambulance is facing scrutiny after internal reports revealed high failure rates for corpuls 3 defibrillators. While management defends the devices as safe, internal communications show significant dissatisfaction among paramedics regarding the equipment's reliability.
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Share A A A Defibrillators used in NSW’s ambulances have been failing at disappointing rates and are “by no means acceptable”, a director at the emergency service has told paramedics.
As NSW Ambulance on Tuesday publicly stood by the device after this masthead revealed the medical regulator had suspended its registration, a post from a senior officer cast fresh doubts over its reliability.
NSW Ambulance associate director of clinical practice Marty Nichols. Instagram Marty Nichols, the service’s associate director of clinical practice, in March wrote a lengthy post to an internal forum with more than 4000 members, sympathising with officers reporting issues with the corpuls 3 and corpuls 3T devices, saying they were “right to be disappointed”.
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