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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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

Defibrillators are things that fiction gets badly wrong. They are used only in very specific conditions – when a heart is beating in an incorrect rhythm, and the shock ‘resets’ that rhythm.

So, the answer is, “because the writers of the movie thought it to be more exciting that way.”