Defibrillation Stocks List
Symbol | Grade | Name | % Change | |
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CNMD | C | CONMED Corporation | -0.17 | |
MDT | D | Medtronic Inc. | 0.75 |
Related Industries: Medical Devices
Symbol | Grade | Name | Weight | |
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PCIG | F | Polen Capital International Growth ETF | 5.31 | |
IHI | A | iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF | 4.57 | |
ABEQ | A | Absolute Core Strategy ETF | 4.54 | |
CAMX | A | The Advisors? Inner Circle Fund Cambiar Aggressive Value ETF | 4.19 | |
FLV | A | American Century Focused Large Cap Value ETF | 3.91 |
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- Defibrillation
Defibrillation is a treatment for life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias, specifically ventricular fibrillation (VF) and non-perfusing ventricular tachycardia (VT). A defibrillator delivers a dose of electric current (often called a counter-shock) to the heart. Although not fully understood, this process depolarizes a large amount of the heart muscle, ending the dysrhythmia. Subsequently, the body's natural pacemaker in the sinoatrial node of the heart is able to re-establish normal sinus rhythm. A heart which is in asystole (flatline) cannot be restarted by a defibrillator, but would be treated by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
In contrast to defibrillation, synchronized electrical cardioversion is an electrical shock delivered in synchrony to the cardiac cycle. Although the person may still be critically ill, cardioversion normally aims to end poorly perfusing cardiac dysrhythmias, such as supraventricular tachycardia.Defibrillators can be external, transvenous, or implanted (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator), depending on the type of device used or needed. 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 no training.
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