In a movie, where the protagonist is badly injured and about to die, they start using defibrillators, they start from the lowest amount of shock/power, to the highest, so why dont they just start at the highest?

Question

In a movie, where the protagonist is badly injured and about to die, they start using defibrillators, they start from the lowest amount of shock/power, to the highest, so why dont they just start at the highest?

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Answer 1

There’s a lot of medically wrong nonsense in movies, and fiction in general.