23 Sep
2008
23 Sep
'08
7:25 a.m.
On Monday 22 September 2008 11:26, der Mouse wrote:
I remember some magazine article dealing with this years ago. Apparently
there's a range of current (through the heart) that below the range, nothing
much happens. Above the range, the heart stops. Within it, though, you
get ventricular fibrillation...
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accelerator voltage is DC. [...] The low current capacity of
that supply is what helps.
Helps.
It doesn't take much of a shock to kill, if it goes anywhere near the
heart. (I've even seen some topological(!) reasons to think that if it
does go near the heart, a strong shock is safer than a weak one. Not
that I'd want anyone to risk either, especially since those arguments
give no real idea of what "strong" and "weak" are here.)