 Defibrillators could be replaced?
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Conundrum
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Sat Oct 08 2011, 03:14PM
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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Seems that the old "360 joule" shock with the 40% success rate may be obsolete shortly.
The basic idea seems to be that if high frequency AC can effectively "freeze" the cells in the refractory state it gives them a chance to resynchronise when the AC field is stopped.
Maybe the "mobile phone defibrillator" isn't so far fetched after all, with this method the required gel electrodes might only need to be about the same size as the back of the phone and double as an ECG to send information to the ambulance en route.
It is also interesting to note that the same approach *might* be effective in treating epilepsy which is caused by a very similar mechanism (i.e. nerve cells going into an unstable state and firing out of control) in which case a very small external device similar to a TENS machine could be an effective treatment for drug resistant epilepsy?
-A
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Tetris
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hm..... lol then my cpr/aed training will be obsolete? :P this will probably only happen after it expires.. but...
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