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There were no heart attacks or deaths among the 200 participants in the study, because they had implanted defibrillators, which monitor heart rhythms and deliver electric shocks to restore normal heartbeat when they detect life-threatening abnormalities.
One of its products is an 11 pound defibrillator a device that restores a normal heartbeat with brief electric shocks.
The heart loses its normal electrical rhythm and the pumping mechanism collapses, so unless the patient gets prompt CPR and an electric shock to restore the heartbeat, brain damage sets in quickly from the loss of blood flow and the patient dies -- usually before they get to the hospital.
A short but polite conversation about the relative merits and demerits of Elizabeth I's foreign policy, perhaps, followed by everyone having a device installed at their desks that administers an electric shock every time their heartbeat approaches a resting pace.
While on holiday this summer, the 24-year-old suffered a second heart scare when the mini-defibrillator fitted inside his chest administered an electric shock to correct an irregular heartbeat.
An implantable cardioverter defibrillator is a battery-powered device under the skin that tracks heart rate and delivers an electric shock to restore a normal heartbeat if it detects an abnormal rhythm.
If you don't get an electric feeling, you don't have a heartbeat".
When the defibrillator senses that the heart is starting to beat erratically -- a condition that can lead to death from totally uncoordinated attempts at a heartbeat -- it administers an electric shock to bring its rhythm back.
All three were in their own world but their sound overlapped perfectly, with Jones stroking an ethereal screech from the strings of his electric bass while Henriksen tapped out a heartbeat on drums over an indecipherable vocal mantra and a squall of electronic static.
