“I just wish it never would have happened. It would have taken all of two minutes to check his blood pressure, if even that,” the man’s daughter said. “And we wouldn’t be talking.”
In February, Phoebe Maxwell says she found her dad, Thomas Maxwell, on the floor faintly breathing she called 911 and began CPR.When Clearwater Fire and Rescue showed up, Phoebe Maxwell says the medics told her to stop and that her dad was dead.That memory still haunts Phoebe Maxwell as she recalls hearing her father gasp for air.
It was reported that when law enforcement showed up, they witnessed “agonal respiration,” essentially a gasping breath, after medics on scene had already left, failing to reassess Thomas Maxwell and placing a sheet over his body. “The fact that the patient had an agonal respiration should have indicated to the two medics. They should have reassessed their initial findings,” Clearwater Fire Chief Schott Ehlers said. “This is where they failed and showed no concern for family pleas or a second consideration for the patient.”
Ehlers said both medics had years of service, and that this was not an equipment issue but a lack of compassion.But, for Pheobe Maxwell, she says the trauma lives on. “I have nightmares all the time. I don’t sleep well. Getting up, checking on him all the time,” she said.“He says it’s hard. He doesn’t ever want to deal with 911 again,” Phoebe Maxwell said.“Our whole purpose for this is for the people that are out there. That is why we are what we are,” he said. “They call us for when they need help … We respond in the most expedient manner with compassion. And it tears me apart to see individuals in this profession that do not have the compassion.
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