Defibrillation is the definitive treatment for the life threatening cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
Defibrillation consists of delivering a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to the affected heart with a device called a defibrillator.
This dipolarizes a critical mass of the heart muscle, terminates the arrhythmia, and allows normal sinus rhythm to be re-established by the body's natural pacemaker, in the sinoatrial node of the heart.
Defibrillators can be external, transvenous, or implanted, depending on the type of device used.
Some external units, known as automated external defibrillators (AEDs), automate the diagnosis of treatable rhythms, meaning that lay responders or bystanders are able to use them successfully with little or in some cases, no training.
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