![]() The only situations in which an AED is necessary is when the heart is experiencing some type of arrhythmia or erratic heartbeat. Thankfully, AEDs are intelligent enough that they will not deliver a shock, knowing when one is not necessary, as in this case. ![]() A shock from an AED would actually be harmful in this case. EMS would follow this with an injection of a high dose type of adrenaline. Instead, the victim will need cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to keep their blood and oxygen flowing. Once a person’s heart has stopped beating, it is no longer contracting and pumping blood throughout the body to major organs.Ī person in this condition will not benefit from an AED that delivers an electrical shock. Much like a car needs a battery to start, a person needs an electric signal to function. That electrical activity is one of the many keys necessary to a person’s survival. When the heart stops beating due to sudden cardiac arrest(SCA), resulting in a cardiac flatline, the flatline represents a lack of electrical activity in the heart. If you go by what you’ve probably seen on many television shows and movies, then your answer would be “yes it can.” What you may not realized, however, is that television show are merely unrealistic dramatizations when it comes to using AEDs to revive people.Ĭan a Defibrillator Restart a Stopped Heart? But, can a defibrillator restart a stopped heart? They can even revive someone with an automated external defibrillator (AED). They can move a heart from one body to another. Doctors can revive people who are on their death beds. ![]() For example, how did people figure out the inner workings of the human body and discover it had its own electricity?īecause of these discoveries and exceptional minds, technology has lent itself to life saving inventions. It really makes one wonder how people were able to gather so much information so quickly to get where we are today. Yet, those people spoke the same languages and wore many of the same fabrics. The accomplishments that humans have made in the last five hundred years, and especially the last 100 years, could never have been imagined to the humans who were beginning to discover exploration across the oceans 600 years ago. ![]()
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