RE: drsstc (Capacitor Lethal charge)

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Original poster: "McCauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com> 

Defibrillators are meant to "STOP" the heart and to allow the body to
restart the heart hopefully under a normal
beating condition.  They do not "fix" an abnormal rhythm.



  Seems  >
 >strange that an electric charge that would almost certainly  >
 >be lethal to a normally healthy, conscious person can "shock"
 >> a fibrillating heart back into the "normal" electrical ry-
 >> thym, thus possibly saving a life. Dosen't it only take a  >
 >couple of joules to be mortally dangerous?