How your heart works: two pumps, one spark, and what a heart attack really is
Defibrillators: what the shock really does to a heart
In films, a shock jolts a flat line back to life. In real life, a flat line is not shocked. So what does the shock really do to a heart?
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Miva opens the defibrillator. It talks: it tells her where to stick its two pads on Rono's chest.
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Through the pads, the machine reads the electricity of his heart. It finds the chaos, and a shock is coming. Strange: the trouble is electricity in chaos, and the cure is more electricity.
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