Word: countershock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart into fibrillation with low-voltage current. They have left a heart fibrillating for as long as 2¼ hours, and for an average of an hour in 45 cases. At operation's end, they switch the heart back to normal activity with a delicately timed electrical countershock...
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