DEFIBRILLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does defibrillation mean? 

• DEFIBRILLATION (noun)
  The noun DEFIBRILLATION has 1 sense:

1. treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator)

  Familiarity information: DEFIBRILLATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFIBRILLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("defibrillation" is a kind of...):

medical aid; medical care (professional treatment for illness or injury)

Derivation:

defibrillate (stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks)

 Context examples 

Defibrillation sends an electric shock to restore the heart rhythm to normal.

(Cardiac Arrest, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The cardiac lead is not performing as expected with issues such as oversensing with or without shock or ATP, or failed shocks or inadequate DFT safety margins defibrillation activity.

(Cardiac Defibrillator Issue, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Cardiac arrest should be used to signify an event as described above that is reversed, usually by CPR, and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.

(Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Cardiac arrest may be reversed by CPR, and/or defibrillation, cardioversion or cardiac pacing.

(Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)

The date of a cardiac arrest event that was reversed, usually by cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.

(Date of Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)

Cardiac arrest should be used to signify an event as described above, that is reversed, usually by CPR and / or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.

(History of Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual trained and certified to provide all basic and intermediate life support measures in addition to using invasive medical procedures (including intravenous therapy, cardiac defibrillation, administering medications and solutions, and using ventilation devices) as dictated by state law and performed under medical control in case of medical emergencies, hazardous materials exposure, child birth, abuse, fires, flood, accidents, trauma, and psychiatric crises.

(Paramedic, NCI Thesaurus)

This treatment is called defibrillation.

(Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators, NIH)

People are less likely to die if they have early defibrillation.

(Cardiac Arrest, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

An event in the personal medical histroy of cardiac arrest that is reversed, usually by CPR and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.

(History of Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)