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Defibrillators in the movies/tv shows – do they really bring people back?

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Hey everyone,

In Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, ER, Green Wing, and most other medical drama TV shows, when a patient's heart stops beating, and you hear the dead flatline beeeeep across the heart monitor, and then the doctors grab hold of two metal defirillators/paddles and say something like "Shock 200!!", does the patient heart start beating again?

^ That was a mouthful, sorry!

What I mean is, when the heart totally stops beating, is it a defibrillator or precordial thump, or anything really, that is able to bring them back? Or is is that defibrillators correct abnormal heart rhythm?

Oh how I've always wanted to know...

Thanks, -wink-nod-nod"

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One Response to “Defibrillators in the movies/tv shows – do they really bring people back?”

  1. [Scrubs] Jelliot Fan SVB Says:
    January 6th, 2011 at 2:54 am

    Well, on TV shows they’re faking it. No one is really laying there dead. They mimic the sounds and motions to look real.

    In real life, a defibrillator re-starts the heart. It sends a shock directly onto it making the blood respond and circulate. It’s basically a fake way of a heart beating until the heart re-starts on its own, or they try for so long and it doesn’t not work. Once those machines show a flat-line, it’s time to stop the process.

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