DEFIBRILLATOR & PACEMAKER
Defibrillator is a device that delivers a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to the affected heart.
This depolarizes a critical mass of the heart muscle and allows normal sinus rhythm to be reestablished by the body’s natural pacemaker of the heart.
Pacemaker
It is a medical device which uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contacting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart.
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DIATHERMY
The term diathermy means “electrically induced heat” and
is commonly used for muscle relaxation. It is also a method
of heating tissue electromagnetically or ultrasonically for
therapeutic purposes in medicine.
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ELECTROSURGICAL UNIT (ESU)
Electrosurgical unit is a medical device that applies a highfrequency
electric current to biological tissue as a means
to cut, coagulate, dehydrate, or fulgurate tissue.
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