Shockable

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). ❋ ANDRÉ PICARD (2011)

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. ❋ ANDRÉ PICARD (2011)

Also note that an AED will not shock the patient unless they have a "shockable" heart rythm (V-Fib or V-Tach). ❋ Unknown (2008)

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 … ❋ Unknown (2008)

But businessmen, I have since come to realize, are the least shockable of characters, far less so than soldiers and politicians. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre is particularly gruesome, and I'm not easily shockable. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2010)

For a start, if it _was_ a famous well-read blog - and I had a big potentially shockable readership to think about - I wouldn't ever have the nerve to blog re this particular subject. ❋ Juliette (2008)

As I suspected (see the discussion of "Myth No. 6" here, and Point No. 2, here), the Administration has construed that test to allow the use of the CIA enhanced techniques -- persumably because their consciences just aren't that shockable. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some fans of "" The Drew Carey Show, '' his G-rated ABC sitcom, however, might be more shockable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Constitution and the Bill of Rights will depend on more than the decisions of honest judges and the testimony of honest and shockable public servants like ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even after the experience of this half a day, she remained shockable. ❋ Thomas Berger (2008)

But then, having been suckered into the role of the shockable bourgeois, MASS MoCA hollered, “Enough!” ❋ Unknown (2007)

“While data are limited, if we assume that a shockable rhythm would exist in 25% of home SCA cases …” ❋ Unknown (2006)

This should be enough, right now, to warn you that this is not a movie for the kids or for that easily shockable individual who used to be known as the old lady from Dubuque. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2006)