Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Re: Touching a "hot" connector
Message-ID: <1989Aug9.175048.21910@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <427@edai.ed.ac.uk> <880007@hpmtlx.HP.COM> <31069@coherent.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 17:50:48 GMT

In article <31069@coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>... Once the heart starts
>fibrillating, it will not tend to regularize itself; someone must apply
>a pulse of current (>> threshold) in order to kick the oscillator out of
>its unstable mode and back into a regular phased operation...

Something I've occasionally wondered about:  granted that practically
nothing but a strong shock will get the oscillator functioning properly
again, would CPR mechanically override the fibrillating heart muscle and
keep blood flowing?
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