Is It Legal? What Would Happen?
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Legal? Not if they didn't need defibrillating (and you knew it) and you caused a cardiac arrest-it would be in the realm of murder if they died. An electrical shock to the heart stops it.
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Well, it would be the same thing if you were to shock someone who was in v-tach or v-fib, you would stop the heart from contracting or quivering. Hopefully it would start up again but there's always the risk it wouldn't.
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Shocking a normal healthy heart would more thanlikely cause a heart stoppage, killing the recipient.