Tuesday 29 November 2022 04:42 PM Bedridden man BURNS to death at hospital after defibrillator pads set him alight trends now
A bedridden man burned to death on Thanksgiving Day after hospital defibrillator pads set him on fire in front of his horrified wife.
Kathy Stark watched her husband of 35 years, Bobby Ray Stark, go up in flames last Thursday after his blood pressure dropped severely low following complaints about chest pain.
A team of doctors and nurses pushed in a 'crash cart' and attached defibrillator paddles to his chest to 'shock his heart back in sinus rhythm,' according to a GoFundMe set up by his daughter.
Instead of shocking his heart back to a regular rhythm, however, the pads sparked from a faulty wire and created a 'fireball,' which burned Bobby's chest, face, head, hands, throat, and lungs.
Kathy witnessed the flames spreading across her husband's body, telling KSN in tears: 'They started the [defibrillator] paddles, and it just blew up everything. I saw that, and I just burst out.
'I said: "He’s on fire, put him out."'
He was then transferred to Skyline Hospital's burn unit, where he died later that day.
Kathy Stark watched her husband of 35 years go up in flames last Thursday when his blood pressure dropped severely low after a nurse tried to adjust him following complaints about chest pain
Bobby, who has been bedridden for the last seven years after suffering from 'several strokes' that left him paralyzed, had recently had part of his foot amputated November 17 before being transferred to TriStar Centennial Medical Center
Moments after being adjusted, a team of doctors and nurses pushed in a 'crash
