History Main / ShotToTheHeart

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* {{Conversed}} on a web page ''Two Evil Monks''. In their snarky yet affectionate {{MST}}-like commentary, they inform readers that records confirm that administering Adrenaline-in-the-Heart is becoming televised treatment of choice. It's a part of their picture spam recap of the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Out of Gas" and the episode "The Enemy Walks In" from ''Series/{{Alias}}''. [[http://www.twoevilmonks.org/firefly/season1/ff107p03.htm See two screen grabs and the commentary at top of the page.]]
* ''Website/SFDebris'': {{Conversed}} by SF Debris while reviewing and {{MST}}ing ''Series/{{Firefly}}'''s "Out of Gas". Chuck says that you really shouldn't take medical advice from Creator/QuentinTarantino's movies, referencing the famous scene from ''Pulp Fiction''.

* On ''TheBigBangTheory'', Sheldon tries to prank Howard with an ElectricJoyBuzzer, but Howard appears to collapse from a heart attack and is instructed to stab a syringe of adrenaline straight through his heart. It all turns out to be a counter-prank.

* Happens on ''DowntonAbbey'' - though it's 1912 and this is a new and relatively unusual treatment, and thus [[CoolOldLady Isobel]] has to go behind the stuffy, snobbish Dowager Countess's back to get the doctor to try it on a patient who would otherwise die.

* In the case of Series/ChicagoFire where a patient is suffering from cardiac tamponade (blood/fluid collecting in the pericardium), Paramedic Dawson performs pericardiocentesis in the field, draining the fluid from the sac encasing the heart and saving the patient, but accidentally puncturing the heart muscle in the process. While this intervention and even the outcome is pretty realistic, no medic liking their job would attempt such a thing.

A subtrope of ArtisticLicenseMedicine. Compare HealingShiv. See also InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy and MagicalDefibrillator for similar use of emergency medical procedures for drama.

* Parodied in ''TimeGentlemenPlease'', with a scythe instead of a syringe, and a strong spanish beer for adrenaline.

* In the case of Series/ChicagoFire, where a patient is suffering from cardiac tamponade (blood/fluid collecting in the pericardium). Paramedic Dawson performs pericardiocentesis in the field, draining the fluid constricting the heart and saving the patient. While this intervention and even the outcome is pretty realistic, no medic liking their job would attempt such a thing.

* In ''GetHimToTheGreek'', Russell Brand injects Jonah Hill's heart with an adrenaline shot. Well, Brand's character ''tries'' to do a heart injection, anyway. Being high at the time, he winds up putting the injection somewhere in Jonah Hill's shoulder.

-->-- '''Two Evil Monks''', Recap of "Out of Gas" from ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

* Done twice in the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' episode, "Out Of Gas."

* ''Website/SFDebris'': {{Conversed}} by SFDebris while reviewing and {{MST}}ing ''Series/{{Firefly}}'''s "Out of Gas". Chuck says that you really shouldn't take medical advice from Creator/QuentinTarantino's movies, referencing the famous scene from ''Pulp Fiction''.

* Reviving another player in {{Resident Evil 6}} shows a short sequence of you kneeling by their side, then stabbing them in the chest with... something. Whilst they're still conscious. It's never made clear what's being used - it could even possibly be an empty fist being punched into the chest in a very misguided attempt at CPR. Again, on a conscious patient able to call for help.

* People with beesting or food allergies generally keep an emergency kit with an epinephrine autoinjector, but it is administered to the thigh or buttock, ''definitely'' not into the heart.
** EpiPens and other epi autoinjectors also use spring-loaded wide needles that are large and strong enough to go through clothing.
** As a final aversion to the trope: EpiPen needles are only ~15 mm long. By design, this is long enough to punch through cloth and skin to muscle, but too short to reach someone's heart or anything else inside their ribcage.

** As a final aversion to the trope: EpiPen needles are only ~15 mm long. Long enough to punch through cloth and skin to muscle, but too short to reach someone's heart.

** Epi-Pens are also essentially spring-loaded, so there's no syringe involved. It's large and strong enough to go through clothing.

** One of the primary treatments for heroin OD is a large injection of **naloxone**, which temporarily reverses respiratory failure caused by opioid overdose. But, like epi, you slam naloxone into a vein or a large peripheral muscle and very much not into the heart.

* ''Franchise/{{Emergency}}'' liked this trope, although it was usually done through the patient's skin and muscle, rather than right into the heart with the chest open. This was TruthInTelevision, however, as all the procedures and treatments performed by the paramedics were [[ShownTheirWork directly from LA County's EMS protocols at the time.]]

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In a WhoDunnitToMe plot, the [[VictimOfTheWeek POI]] has been fatally poisoned, and as they're driving to the killers house, says he just wants to live long enough to look his murderer in the eye. Shortly after, the man in the back with the POI shouts that he just died. Reese pulls over and injects the POI in the heart, keeping him alive long enough to confront his murderer (and witness his KarmicDeath).

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In a WhoDunnitToMe plot, the [[VictimOfTheWeek POI]] has been fatally poisoned, and says he just wants to live long enough to look his killer in the eye. Shortly after, the man in the back with him shouts that he's just died. Reese pulls over and injects him in the heart, keeping him alive long enough to confront his murderer (and witness his KarmicDeath).

* At one point in ''ModernWarfare3'' you need to press X to do this to Soap.

* Doc Robbins does this in one ''{{CSI}}'' episode, where a guy revives on his table.

* Done twice in the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode, "Out Of Gas."

* Clark does this to Chloe in second season ''{{Smallville}}'' episode "Truth".

* ''Franchise/{{Emergency}}'' liked this trope, although it was usually done through the patient's skin and muscle, rather than right into the heart with the chest open.

* People with beesting allergies generally keep an emergency bee-sting kit with an epinephrine autoinjector, but it is administered to the thigh or buttock, ''definitely'' not into the heart.