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[–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The sooner a defibrillator can restart the heart the better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defibrillation

Defibrillators don't restart the heart, that's a common misconception. They effectively shock-reset it so that it can resume its normal beating rhythm.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You are correct, it was a lazy-ish shortcut on my part.
    The sooner a defibrillator can be used to induce the hearts electrical rhythm to resume ordered behavior and allow meaningful contractions to pump blood, the better.

    Even more succinctly: YELL 911 AED CPR GOGOGO

    The AED can only reset electric rythyms. Not every source of not having a pulse is due to chaotic electrical rhythm, not every electrical issue has a lack of pulse. "Stopped" and "restart" are ambiguous. I would generally forgive the usage of "not working" and "make start working" from anyone less trained than an EMT.

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