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stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks

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"We have enough power to emit a powerful distress signal or even save a life by defibrillating a patient," he stated.
'POSSIBLY MERSEYSIDE'S LUCKIEST MAN' CONSULTANT Surgeon Paul Modi said: "Mr Hooper is possibly the luckiest man in Merseyside having sustained an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and having been given CPR in the garden by a family member prior to the paramedics defibrillating him.
Step Eight: A defibrillating plunge into the outdoor Icelandic cold pool.
Then the player said the ambulance was there and they were defibrillating him.
"So what we learned is that the defibrillating device is not a good model for testing the question of whether DHA and EPA prevent ventricular fibrillation."
For far too many decades, roughly 90 years by my count, the defense budget has been characterized by a "boom and bust" cycle--if you graphed it, it would look like an EKG of a defibrillating heart.
As of this writing, no cardiac pacing and/or defibrillating devices are labeled safe or conditionally safe for MRI scanning," the panel warned.
* if defibrillating a child, use 4 Joules/ kg, irrespective of the make and age of defibrillator.
I didn't direct my own epic mega-code, defibrillating multiple patients simultaneously in Scorsese jump cuts.
The patient received three defibrillating shocks of 200J, 200J and 360J.
Last year both Ysgol y Bont, Llangefni and Anglesey First Responders towards the cost of defibrillating equipment.
For every minute that a person who suffers a cardiac arrest does not receive a defibrillating shock, their chances of survival decrease by 10%.