Fun fact: the defibrillator is not used to start a flatlining patient's heart. It's for stopping a heart that beats but doesn't pump blood. The heart then turns on correctly and starts pumping. The defibrillator is “did you try to turn it off and on again?”, but for hearts.
What makes a flatlining heart beat again is CPR + epinephrine.
Another fun fact: Lemon Demon's “Two Trucks Having Sex” has a perfect rhythm for CPR.
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I always heard "staying alive" by bee gees.

@spongessuck my parents go to a coverband of the bee gees today

@spongessuck yep, it too

I believe “Another One Bites the Dust” is also the right timing for chest compressions.

Yupp.. The myocard's pacemaker is a system of conductive tissues and rythm generators [bcz the heart doesn't contract all at once]. The depolarization and repolarization must alwaya follow the same sequence, with all the pauses in the same places. Should anything go out of order, the whole brittle mechanism stops acting as a pump and reminds a nervous kid pointlessly flapping his hands when asked to do the task. The defibrilator depolarizes all the electrical wiring all at once, i.E. Forcefully transitioning into the pre-systolic pause, effectively resetting the sequence to defaults, at step 1. If the sinus rythm doesn't start on its own, cpr might be the nudge it needs.

@AmyShackles
Another good one: "Kickstart My Heart by Mötley Crüe"

I had a seminar at work about using a defibrillator. You guys clearly have greater depth knowledge than the guy that presented at that seminar.

Movies and series have done a lot of damage toward collective consciousness of the difference between ventricular fibrillation and cardiorespiratory stall.

I guess the whole "charge", "clear" and shock gives more cinematic oomph.

This fact blew my mind when I heard it a few years ago during a safety at work training.

The instructor also pointed out that in the movies, they bend the elbows during the CPR when pushing on the victim's chest, where normally you are supposed to keep your arms stretched and elbows locked.

To be fair, though, doing that to a healthy person would harm them, so can't fully blame the movies.