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What purpose is dc shock for cardioversion?
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Reset button: Enough current applied through the chest wall and into the heart will basically depolarize all of the heart muscle at once. As the heart electrically recovers, "normal" electrical activity has a chance to return - basically it resets the electrical activity of the heart.
Answered 2/15/2013
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Cardioversion: Direct current cardioversion is to send a unidirectional current through the chest/heart to depolarize the heart and let normal rhyhthm resume.
Answered 11/28/2017
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