Defibrillation and Cardioversion: eMedicine Clinical Procedures
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Defibrillation and Cardioversion: eMedicine Clinical Procedures
Overview: Defibrillation was first demonstrated by Prevost and Batelli, from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1899. They discovered that small electrical shocks could induce ventricular fibrillation in dogs and that larger charges would reverse the condition. Transthoracic ...
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Tags: Heart, Heart Disease, Arrhythmia, Ventricular Fibrillation, Emergency, Advanced Life Support, Electrical Shock
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