3. In the medical field, if you send a jolt of electricity to a patient to try to start their heart, you must wait before each jolt for picture with a camera with flash, you have to wait a couple seconds before you can take another picture. Why do you think this is? to charge. Why do you think this is? If you take a

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. In the medical field, if you send a jolt of electricity to a patient to try to start their heart,
you must wait before each jolt for it to charge. Why do you think this is? If you take a
picture with a camera with flash, you have to wait a couple seconds before you can take
another picture. Why do you think this is?
Transcribed Image Text:. In the medical field, if you send a jolt of electricity to a patient to try to start their heart, you must wait before each jolt for it to charge. Why do you think this is? If you take a picture with a camera with flash, you have to wait a couple seconds before you can take another picture. Why do you think this is?
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Defibrillation is a method used to stop ventricular fibrillation or abnormal ventricular heartbeats such as tachycardia. The device uses an electrical shock to treat the electrical instability of the heart and lets the natural pacemaker cells control the heart rhythm. 

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