Tag: Ventricular fibrillation
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Cardiac Defibrillators
Ventricular fibrillation is a serious cardiac emergency resulting from asynchronous contraction of the heart muscles. This uncoordinated movement of the ventricle walls of the heart may result from coronary occlusion, from electric shock or from abnormalities of body chemistry. Due to these irregular contractions of the muscle fibres, the ventricles simply quiver rather than pumping…