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What do you call the machine that doctors uses to revive(shock) a coding patient?

by Guest59667  |  earlier

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you know, the one with the paddles and the doctor usually says clear! before using it.

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  1. defibrillator - an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation

    Hope this helps


  2. The other answers have the name right, but the function is a bit different from the jist of many. What it actually does is STOP the heart from beating, for a brief time, and it's used when the heart rhythm is dysfunctional in hopes that it'll start back to work of its own accord, in a functional rhythm. It can't work if the heart's stopped beating altogether.

  3. This machine is called dephibrilator.

    It is used in emercengy medicine to try to reverse/convert, by aplying a direct electrical current to the heart, a lethal arrythmia called ventricular fibrilation into normal sinus rythm. It is also sometimes used to convert atrial fibrilation and some malignant ventricular tachycardiae into sinus rythm.

    the proper term is not dephibrilation, but cardioversion.

    Nromally, the physician in charge shouts¨Clear¨before giving  the discharge, so the people arround steps back  and lift their hands out of the gourney to prevent potential electrocution of the sourrounding physicians and nurses touching the patient.

  4. Defibrillator

  5. crash cart (defib)

  6. defibrillator or defib for short

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