Long-term electrical stimulation of the heart for Stokes-Adams disease. Ann Surg 1961; 154:338 Zoll RH, Zoll PM, Belgard AH: ... J Clin Invest 1962; 41:1381 Zoll PM, Linenthal A. AC and DC countershock for arrhythmias. Letter to the editor. JAMA 1964; 188 ... Paul Zoll developed methods of applying electric shocks to the surface of the chest that stimulated the heart within. When the ... The next year he collaborated with Alan Belgard, the chief electrical engineer and co-owner of the Electrodyne Company, to ...
Abildgaard and Countershock: The Bicentennial of His Electrical Experiments on Animals". Annals of Internal Medicine. 83 (6): ... "Termination of ventricular fibrillation in man by externally applied electric countershock". The New England Journal of ... He found that applying an electric shock to the head of a hen rendered it apparently lifeless, but that it could be revived by ... An electrical current was transmitted from the capacitor, through the plastic airway device, to an electrode placed over the ...
A defibrillator delivers a dose of electric current (often called a counter-shock) to the heart. Although not fully understood ... In contrast to defibrillation, synchronized electrical cardioversion is an electrical shock delivered in synchrony to the ... The risk of electrical shock to others remains unchanged, as does that of shock due to operator misuse.) Self-adhesive ... Albert Hyman, heart specialist at the Beth Davis Hospital of New York City and C. Henry Hyman, an electrical engineer, looking ...
... for his contributions in the fields of electrical insulation, electrical measurements, and electrical science applied to ... He detected that delivering a second surge of electricity, also known as a countershock, led to the restoration of the sinus ... "Reviving the Body Electric" (PDF). JHU Engineering. Retrieved 10 March 2017. Brittain, James E. (2009). "Electrical Engineering ... Guy Knickerbocker, an electrical engineer working at Kouwenhoven's laboratory, discovered that the copper electrodes caused a ...
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