Like say someone is perfectly healthy but their heart stops and they don’t get to the hospital in time. Why is it impossible to “turn them back on” through electricity? Especially since we figure the brain is just electrical impulses. Why can’t we jolt it back?
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this is the misunderstanding with “the paddles” or as its called the defibrillators : they dont Restart a stopped heart, their job is ot shock the Heart muscle that is “spasming” back into a regular beat.
it does nothing for a stopped Heat: that requires CPR and chemical Aid and has to be performed quickly enough as so that the brain isn’t oxygen deprived for too long.
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