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Subject: cirurgic steel faraday cage to prevent heart fibrilation due shock?

Date: Sun Jun 12 22:57:53 2005
Posted by Tiago Estill de Noronha
Grade level: undergrad School: No school entered.
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered. Country: Brasil
Area of science: Biophysics
ID: 1118635073.Bp
Message:

( I choose phisics instead of biology or other more medical category because I
believe the knowlodge needed to answer this is more on the areas of physics)

if we take cirurgical steel (material wich scalps (spelling?) and other
cirurgical instruments are made) and produce a chain mesh from it, and put it
around the heart (leaving holes for the veins and arteries, would it protect the
person from having his heart fibrilated if he gets electrocuted?
or the shape of the heart or the conductivity of blood or another factor would
not  make this reliable?


I guess if this work it could be used to reduce health insurance price for
electric company's employers as they will be very less subjectable to damages
from a bump on a power line, won't need cpr, only treatment for the burns, and
most people live their whole lives without the need of a defibrilator, it would
be like a bet, they have more chance of having electricity trhu their hearts
than needing to get defibrilated from fibrilation caused by something else


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