The automated external defibrillator is a portable, self-contained machine that can shock the heart back into rhythm.
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If it detects a severe arrhythmia, the device is designed to shock the heart, causing it to revert to normal rhythm.
There was no water there but they still didn't shock her heart.
Even in this high-tech era of amazing medical tools--MRI scanners that can see deep inside the body, gamma-ray beams harnessed to zap tumors, implantable defibrillators that shock the heart to keep it pumping--surgeons still wield an old-fashioned blade to take life into their hands.
All that followed a warning to doctors on Feb. 10 that some 87, 000 life-saving heart devices-mostly implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, which use batteries to shock an abnormally beating heart back into rhythm-were at risk of losing power without warning.
All that followed a warning to doctors on Feb. 10 that some 87, 000 lifesaving heart devices--mostly implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, which use batteries to shock an abnormally beating heart back into rhythm--were at risk of losing power without warning.
Defibrillators, implantable devices that deliver an electric shock to the heart to reestablish normal rhythm, began widespread clinical adoption in 2003.
Oviedo's sudden death in the heart of campaign season sent shock waves across Paraguay's political landscape less than three months before the presidential vote.
Implantable defibrillators, which deliver a shock to the heart to prevent it from shutting down, have been surgically implanted into hundreds of thousands of patients in recent years.
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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But only time will tell if a kind of cultural shock can start the heart of a new market beating.
The septic shock had left her with heart and respiratory failure as well as dry gangrene of her foot, which would have to be amputated.
The cause in about half the cases is ventricular fibrillation, an electrical disturbance in the heart that is most responsive to a shock from an AED.
When the heart stops, the device provides an electric shock to restart it.
He went into shock, and died when his heart rhythm went haywire.
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For example, the doctor could create an asthmatic patient with chronic heart disease who is taking a handful of certain drugs and is currently experiencing anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction.
But the real heart of the optimal currency idea is will the economies react asymmetrically to an external economic shock?
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When people first immerse themselves in such frigid water, their bodies go into "cold shock, " and they start gasping for air, which puts a strain on the heart.
It came as a terrible shock to him that the experience of an independent American production should turn out to be as heart-breaking as that of a film made in the Mosfilm studio.
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.
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