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FIBRILLATOR

Typical Number in Hospital: 1 Cost Bands: 2 References: 7

This is an instrument for arresting the action of the heart prior to cardiac surgery. The heart is usually put into ventricular fibrillation by a medium-frequency sine wave stimulation through electrodes on the surface of the heart.

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