You are right that shocks only work for certain problem heart rhythms. If the AED doesn’t detect a rhythm that a shock can fix, it will say something like no shock advised and won’t shock.
“Machine could not produce a shock” sounds like a bystander who doesn’t understand describing a no shock situation. Either that or maybe AED battery wasn’t charged or faulty.
Ok, I see my issue. I interpreted the sentence to mean that shocks were administered, but the shocks didn’t restart the heart. Thanks for snapping my brain back into the correct context.
Still, if the machine was not functional we could still have the makings of a conspiracy!
Yeah AEDs actually stop the heart. So there are a few heart rhythms that will not produce a pulse but the heart is still moving, just not as a single unit instead just randomly cells contracting. Think bowl of jello. The AED shocks the heart in a way it stuns it with the hope that it will restart with a normal rhythm. If it isn’t moving there is nothing to stop.
Well this can only last so long before the cells die from a lack of oxygen. Which is about 5 minutes, 10 on the long end. So by the time the AED got there he was very dead. Not a full team of doctors and all the tools could have done anything.
This is why you are seeing more and more AEDs in the work place and public places. When you hear the CPR courses talk about early CPR and early AED use it is within five minutes. So that you can buy time for the ambulance to get there and give drugs to keep the person alive till they can get the larger problem fixed.
You are right that shocks only work for certain problem heart rhythms. If the AED doesn’t detect a rhythm that a shock can fix, it will say something like no shock advised and won’t shock.
“Machine could not produce a shock” sounds like a bystander who doesn’t understand describing a no shock situation. Either that or maybe AED battery wasn’t charged or faulty.
Ok, I see my issue. I interpreted the sentence to mean that shocks were administered, but the shocks didn’t restart the heart. Thanks for snapping my brain back into the correct context.
Still, if the machine was not functional we could still have the makings of a conspiracy!
Yeah AEDs actually stop the heart. So there are a few heart rhythms that will not produce a pulse but the heart is still moving, just not as a single unit instead just randomly cells contracting. Think bowl of jello. The AED shocks the heart in a way it stuns it with the hope that it will restart with a normal rhythm. If it isn’t moving there is nothing to stop.
Well this can only last so long before the cells die from a lack of oxygen. Which is about 5 minutes, 10 on the long end. So by the time the AED got there he was very dead. Not a full team of doctors and all the tools could have done anything.
This is why you are seeing more and more AEDs in the work place and public places. When you hear the CPR courses talk about early CPR and early AED use it is within five minutes. So that you can buy time for the ambulance to get there and give drugs to keep the person alive till they can get the larger problem fixed.