Why Doctors Don't Shock a Flatline Like in the Movies #science #medicine #myths

Defibrillator myth: in movies one shock restarts a flatline. In real life a flat line means the heart has no electrical activity, so doctors use CPR and adrenaline. The shock is for ventricular fibrillation: it hits most of the heart muscle at once, the chaos stops and the heart's own pacemaker takes over.

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