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Can you use a defibrillator to treat a heart attack?
If not that, then what do you do to treat a heart attack?
There is a mnemonic i use for the treatment of heart attacks.
MONA
Morphine
Oxygen 100%
Nitroglycerine
Aspirin
This is the immediate treatment of a heart attack.
There are many variations in heart attack, thus other drugs a also used.
After the first heart attack a patient mostly stays on certain drugs for a long time.
MONA
Morphine
Oxygen 100%
Nitroglycerine
Aspirin
This is the immediate treatment of a heart attack.
There are many variations in heart attack, thus other drugs a also used.
After the first heart attack a patient mostly stays on certain drugs for a long time.
Technically, a defibrillator is used to stop a heart from an ongoing fibrillation i.e a heart beating at a very high rate.
More importantly, as we see in the movies 'zapping the heart' is also used to start a heart that has stopped, may it be any reason.
A heart attack can stop the heart, if it is severe enough. Then defibrillators are used as the final resuscitation procedure.
More importantly, as we see in the movies 'zapping the heart' is also used to start a heart that has stopped, may it be any reason.
A heart attack can stop the heart, if it is severe enough. Then defibrillators are used as the final resuscitation procedure.
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