Without appropriate technical updates, patients are at risk of inappropriate shocks from their defibrillators (IMAGE)

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Without appropriate technical updates, patients are at risk of inappropriate shocks from their defibrillators

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Device interrogation in the emergency department showed that the patient’s defibrillator was in VVI backup mode with base rate of 67 beats per minute and ventricular fibrillation detection rate of 146 beats per minute.

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Heart Rhythm Case Reports

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