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Electrical dosages actually depend on a few things. For manual defibrillators, it's important to note if your device is monophasic or biphasic. Monophasic defibrillators max out at 360 joules, where biphasic devices max out at 200 joules.
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Electrical dosages actually depend on a few things. For manual defibrillators, it\'s important to note if your device is monophasic or biphasic. Monophasic defibrillators max out at 360 joules, where biphasic devices max out at 200 joules. The difference being that biphasic devices deliver electricity more efficiently to the heart, so you need less voltage to achieve the same result.
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Now, to answer your question, one of the reasons people yell
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Now, to answer your question, one of the reasons people yell \"charging\" is so that people who are physically touching the patient (for CPR or whatever else needs to be done at the moment) know that a shock is incoming. Keep in mind, there\'s usually a lot going on in a cardiac arrest, and you don\'t want someone to get electrocuted because they didn\'t know the patient was about to receive a shock.
As for electrical dosages, the amount varies on the situation/condition. As stated before, for a cardiac arrest, the dosages are usually maxed. However, for something like Supra-ventricular Tachycardia (a condition where the heart is beating so quickly the chambers of the heart don\'t have enough time to fill with blood), the dosages will be different. On a monophasic monitor, you\'d start at 200 joules, change to 300 joules if that doesn\'t work, and then finally max out at 360 joules if 300 joules didn\'t do the trick.
As for electrical dosages, the amount varies on the situation/condition. As stated before, for a cardiac arrest, the dosages are usually maxed. However, for something like Supra-ventricular Tachycardia (a condition where the heart is beating so quickly the chambers of the heart don\'t have enough time to fill with blood), the dosages will be different. On a monophasic monitor, you\'d start at 200 joules, change to 300 joules if that doesn\'t work, and then finally max out at 360 joules if 300 joules didn\'t do the trick.
