Tag: Types of defibrillator

What is a defibrillator? A defibrillator is designed to treat ventricular fibrillation, sending a brief electric current through the heart causing the muscle to depolarize and allowing the body’s natural pacemaker to take control. This electrical current has the ability to break an abnormal heart rhythm such as ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation in the…