Why was the doctor shocking Amy's heart? She had flatlined. Shocking a heart is meant to stop the heart (which has an abnormal rhythm) and allow the heart to resume a normal rhythm on its own. You can't really stop a heart that's already stopped. Shocking the heart doesn't jump start it. All you people who have taken CPR courses know this. (Of course I know the real answer. This misconception is used in movies/tv all the time for dramatic effect)
shareResuscitation scenes in film and TV are almost always inaccurate so I wasn't really surprised.
sharebecause it's illogical movie that's why.
Candies in a dream are a dream and not candies.share
info on defibrillators (from Wikipedia):
"Most television shows will have the medical provider defibrillate the "flat-line" ECG rhythm (also known as asystole); this is rarely done in real life. Only the cardiac arrest rhythms ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia are normally defibrillated. (There are also several heart rhythms that can be "defibrillated" when the patient is not in cardiac arrest, such as supraventricular tachycardia or ventricular tachycardia that produces a pulse, though the procedure is then known as cardioversion.) However, a flatline may actually be a fibrillation that is too weak to be seen on the monitor (fine v-fib), so a shock may be delivered, but it is not always the treatment of choice."
there, no need to get all huffy about it.
"However, a flatline may actually be a fibrillation that is too weak to be seen on the monitor (fine v-fib), so a shock may be delivered, but it is not always the treatment of choice."
That is never done and most debrillators have a fail safe mechanism that won't allow you to "debrillate" asystole.
Now there's no need for name calling!
Ya Kirk-loving Spocksucker!