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rdelan...@gmail.com

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Nov 15, 2018, 4:24:47 PM11/15/18
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How does a defibrillator work, what's inside?
And how does it affect the body, ameliorate a heart attack?

Hoping there's a cardiologist in this group, as well as engineers -

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Ralph Mowery

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Feb 14, 2021, 11:22:18 AM2/14/21
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In article <4e50d598-b09d-47e8...@googlegroups.com>,
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.

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