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What is ventricular fibrillation?
Ventricular fibrillation is a heart rhythm problem that occurs when the heart beats with rapid, erratic electrical impulses. This causes pumping chambers in your heart (the ventricles) to quiver uselessly, instead of pumping blood. The remedy of this is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR, which is 30 chest pumps, 2 breaths, defibrillation, adrenaline, repeat)
Surgeon: "The patient in room 0713 is in ventricular fibrillation, we need a defibrillation kit and some adrenaline stat!"
Resuscitator: "Alright, I'm on my way!"