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> The AED indicated a normal cardiac rhythm. That's not something AEDs can do... An AED can tell you whether or not the patient is in one of two very specific
by JshWright 10y ago
> The AED indicated a normal cardiac rhythm.
That's not something AEDs can do... An AED can tell you whether or not the patient is in one of two very specific rhythms or not. If the heart is in ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia, the AED will advise a shock is necessary, otherwise it will report "no shock advised". There are all sorts of nasty cardiac rhythms that an AED will no shock, and there is way to differentiate that.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoThere's a thread on the r/medicine discussion where someone asserts that some AEDs with a monitoring display can be manipulated to get at least some indication of the cardiac rhythm. I'm definitely not qualified to say if they're correct. https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/50q4fa/yes_there_is_a_doctor_on_the_plane_what_i_learned/d76f2g2 https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/50q4fa/yes_there_...