Heart question???!
Question: Is there another way to start the heart if it suddenly stops without using a defibrillator?
Answers: Is there another way to start the heart if it suddenly stops without using a defibrillator?
CPR may do the trick but you realize the heart has it's own conduction system within it and the SHOCK a person receives is suppose to reset the conduction back to normal.
The heart is a muscle with a special electrical conduction system. The system is made of two nodes (special conduction cells) and a series of conduction fibers or bundles (pathways).
The normal heart begins with an electrical impulse from the SA (sinoatrial) node, located high in the right atrium. The SA node is the pacemaker of the normal heart, responsible for setting the rate and rhythm. The impulse spreads through the walls of the atria, causing them to contract. Next, the impulse moves through the AV (atrioventricular) node, a relay station, into the conduction bundles which are located in the ventricles themselves. As the impulse travels down the bundles, the ventricles contract. The cycle then repeats itself.
CPR. But about 80% of the time it doesn't work in older adults with arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythm problems).
You can slam the chest with a good punch then do mouth to mouth resuscitation, it's a primitive approach.
three letters C.P.R.
other then that I havent got a clue