When a person goes into sudden cardiac arrest, they may need electric shocks to the heart with a defibrillator immediately (depending on the underlying heart rhythm, which the defibrillator analyzes).
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Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) sense abnormal heart rhythms and deliver an electric shock to reset heartbeats into a normal pattern. Although ICDs can be lifesaving, the shocks ...