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How is electricity harmful to death?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The worst consequence of electricity is the detrimental effect it has on the heart. Even a few microamperes of current flowing across the heart can send it into ventricular fibrillation, which is the random, uncoordinated rhythm of the of the heart. A heart in ventricular fibrillation cannot pump blood, and the victim dies if the pattern cannot be quickly converted with an AED. The secondary effect of electricity on the body can either be burns at the point where the electricity was contacted, or an additional injury which results from the shock itself, such as one falling off a ladder after being shocked.

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15y ago

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