Defibrillation doesn’t start the heart, it stops it. The problem with a fibulating heart is that it will kill the muscles in the heart and also not supply the body with fresh blood. The defibulator sends a fairly large shock into the body, stoping the heart dead. The body then reacts as it’s programmed to do and resets the old ticker and get’s it working like it should, hopefully.
– Leo
Hey, GutteFitte, welcome to the Message Boards!
It’s helpful if you provide a link to the Staff Report that you are reacting to; that way, others will have some sort of clue to what’s going on. In this case, the topic is Is Frankenstein’s monster possible today?
Just so.
you cant defib a stopped heart much either. Contrary to Hollywood, one usually starts a stopped heart with drugs and maybe massage, if it starts but is in fibrillation, THEN one defibs.
I just love EMS Hollywood style, if he aint breathing say “Oh dear, he is dead”, otherwise shock him until his nipples are smoking!
Koevoet
Hi GutteFitte. Nothing in the Staff Report contradicts that, though it does perhaps leave out the details. Thanks for filling those in.
Koevoet, I just love when they do CPR for a while, stop, then start again because someone can’t let go, and suddenly their emotions actually work to bring the person back (see The Abyss).
I also like when somebody starts CPR, then immediately quits for no apparent reason other than the plot calls for the person to die.
Oh the Abyss was a hoot, they get ready with heat pads, jump-box full of drugs, ambi-bag, the whole katoot, then they inject intramuscular in the arm (!) and just go on like they have no equipment. Iwonder how the drug was meant to get from her arm muscle to the heart if the heart was stopped?
No intracardiac injection of epinophrine, no intubation (I guess she didnt have laryngospasm from drowning), no oxygen on the ambi-bag, no perfusion monitor, el zippo.
But as we all know, people are much more likely to resuss if you yell at them and do mouth to mouth rather than use any newfangled equipment.
I also loved the hesitancy to expose her breasts to get the paddles in place - even though she was probably flatline at that point and shocking would be of no practical use. I noticed that they didnt bother to check her heart with the paddles first - Just slap them on and blast away.
Ah well, such is Hollywood
Take a peek someday at the firearm crowd when they start snickering over the Hollywood glitches with guns.
Koevoet