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rdelan...@gmail.com says...
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> How does a defibrillator work, what's inside?
> And how does it affect the body, ameliorate a heart attack?
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OUside of the electronics that prevent it from discharging into a
working heart, it is just a large capacitor . You hear on the TV shows
the doctor calling out 'Charging 200' or Charging 400. That is the
ammount of power the capacitor is charged to . The heart will often go
into fiberlation which mostly means it is not contracting and letting
loose in a normal manner but just randomly viberating. The Capacitor
discharge clamps the heart mussel and lets it restart in a normal beat
if it works.