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How can you tell difference between someone having heart attack and someone having ventricular fibrillation? give aspirin for v-fib too or no?
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Vfib: Patients with ventricular fibrillation usually become unconscious or dead very quickly. A heart attack patient could have Vfib but more often has pain and other symptoms and is not unconscious if perfusion is adequate. Vfib implies very poor to no perfusion.
Answered 4/6/2016
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