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Defibrillation is a treatment for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, specifically ventricular fibrillation (V-Fib) and non-perfusing ventricular tachycardia (V-Tach). Defibrillation delivers a dose of electric current (often called a counter-shock) to the heart. Although not fully understood, this process depolarizes a large amount of the heart muscle, ending the arrhythmia. Subsequently, the body's natural pacemaker in the sinoatrial node of the heart is able to re-establish normal sinus rhythm. A heart which is in asystole (flatline) cannot be restarted by defibrillation; it would be trea
Key facts
- Medical intervention.name
- Defibrillation
- Medical intervention.image
- Defibrillation Electrode Position.jpg
- Medical intervention.caption
- View of defibrillator electrode position and placement
- Medical intervention.MeshID
- D047548
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Research
50,692 papers- Singapore Defibrillation Guidelines 2016.Singapore medical journal · 2017
- Emergency medicine updates: Defibrillation strategies in cardiac arrest.The American journal of emergency medicine · 2025
- [Electrical defibrillation and cardioversion].Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2005
- Optimizing atrial defibrillation.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 1999
- Optimizing defibrillation waveforms for ICDs.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2007
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- medical treatment
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- Defibrillation Electrode Position.jpg
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- Commons category
- Defibrillation
- different from
- infibulation
- medical condition treated
- ventricular flutter
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