shockable

IPA: ʃˈɑkʌbʌɫ

Examples of "shockable" in Sentences

The shockable rhythms are treated with CPR and defibrillation.
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre is particularly gruesome, and I'm not easily shockable.
Also note that an AED will not shock the patient unless they have a "shockable" heart rythm (V-Fib or V-Tach).
But I was in my late teens or early twenties when I read the diaries and I think I was much less shockable then than I am now …
But businessmen, I have since come to realize, are the least shockable of characters, far less so than soldiers and politicians.
The researchers noted, however, that about 80 per cent of people who suffered cardiac arrest in public had a condition that was "shockable," compared with 36 per cent of those who arrested at home.
The research focused on "shockable" forms - ventricular fibrillation (unco-ordinated contraction of the heart) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (excessively fast heart rhythm that fails to produce a pulse).