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The rhythm strip below is asystole or a flatline. When you defibrillate, or shock, a patient you are attempting to reset the electricity in the heart to a normal rhythm. Asystole has no electrical impulses therefore you cannot shock it.
Therefore any movie in which they shock this makes me cringe up tighter than some peoples butt holes around kylecorn.
Yes this is whining, no I'm not sorry.
ThisIsANewName
Yeah you restart a heart by punching their chest and slapping them around a bunch and yelling at them, right?
MedicPlease
It's even worse when this is accompanied by a huge needle to the chest.
farc0ugh
Yeah just like movies with Spaceships and Superheroes. I reckon that shit isn't 100% truthfully accurate either.
shimmerskeleton
Nobody tell OP they make movies about impossible shit like dragons and ghosts and space battles and talking animals.
Uberpastamancer
How about when they dig out a bullet?
xninex
So strange for an industry that prides itself on realism
hollygoroughlly
We have an automatic one at our work that only shocks if it detects the right rhythm... because none of us are medical doctors
imanmuffinman
Niceeeee
BeatsBearsBattlestarGallactica
Wait... so you can only defibrillate if there is a heartbeat? So you can only do chest compressions till you get the heartbeat going?
shagwisegamgee
Fibrilation is where the cardiac muscles become confused and spasm, not really pumping blood but still pulsating. Defib overrides the (1/2)
BeatsBearsBattlestarGallactica
But only defibrillate if the heartbeat is dangerously irregular?
BeatsBearsBattlestarGallactica
This seems like a dangerous thing for hollywood to lie about.
shagwisegamgee
fibrillation and basically 'resets' the heart. Its extreamly dangerous and should only be done as last resort.
BeatsBearsBattlestarGallactica
So stick to call 911 and then begin compressions till emts arrive. Got I.