Re: Somewhat off topic. Neon gas tubes..

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Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Defibrillators have a 'sync' button that prevents defibrillation of 
more benign rhythms being converted into ventricular defibrillation 
by avoiding a shock delivered during depolarisation on the early T wave.
It has happened to a young patient I was cardioverting out of 
ventricular tachycardia who then went into (otherwise fatal) 
ventricular fibrillation. The solution? Just repeat the shock and 
fixed everything. (Like they say in Hitchhiker's Guide - DONT PANIC).

Peter
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> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Tesla list wrote:
> If the rising edge of the current should hit you at the exact right time
> in the QRST heart waveform, it can stop your heart (trigger fibrillation.)
> The "lethal window" is only open for a tiny percentage of the time, so
> you'll have to zap your chest over and over before you succeed in killing
> yourself.  Russian Roulette.  Over and over you can prove that it's
> perfectly safe, then after three hundred major zaps, suddenly you get
> lucky.
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