Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are small battery-powered devices that can deliver a small electric shock to the heart in response to a life-threatening arrhythmia (when the heart starts beating rapidly and inefficiently).
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In one moment, there was nothing no music, no thoughts, just a pure electric shock of adrenaline.
The NYU scientists first trained rats to associate a tone with a mild electric shock.
If the animal comes into contact with the wire, it feels a small electric shock.
These involved a loud tone followed by a light electric shock to the foot.
In milder cases you can have a small electric shock to get the heartbeat to return to normal, or like British Prime Minister Tony Blair had last year, a procedure called catheter ablation.
The way to stabilise a chaotic heart would be to wait until it comes closer to a more periodic state and then give it a small electric shock to nudge it into that state.
The student asked this question very gently and non-threateningly, but her directness and the fact that she was an African American woman herself caused her question to rattle around my brain like a course of electric shock therapy.
An internal BP presentation from December 2007, early in Mr. Hayward's tenure, noted that there had been 10 "high potential" incidents at BP facilities in the Gulf since the start of that year, including one December case in which a worker suffered an electric shock but survived.
This begins with a stimulus, such as an electric shock, that promotes the fusion of an egg cell that has had its nucleus removed with a donor cell whose nucleus it will assume.
Holly Lee from the Kennel Club said electric collars delivered a painful shock to dogs.
Three engineering students developed a pair of "anti-rape" undies that fend off would-be attackers with an electric shock, and in a discovery that could be a game-changer for environmentally conscious parents, scientists have figured out a way to make super-absorbent diapers from carbon dioxide.
At present, the most common treatment is to administer a massive (and painful) electric shock.
He believes the nation would be best served by a short, sharp, electric-shock-therapy approach, enduring the short-term pain of austerity in exchange for the long-term gains derived from being part of a better European economy.
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We learn of his mother, Renee, who, by the time she bore Jonathan, in the early nineteen-seventies, had already suffered electric-shock treatment and a violent marriage.
An innocent woman hauled off for electric shock treatment, stolen children butchered by an ax murderer, a mom confronting the killer -- even in Eastwood's sober accounting, this makes for heavy-duty melodrama.
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Parity violation, as this phenomenon is called, came as a shock to theorists, but they were able to compensate for it by incorporating the effects of electric charge into their models.
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