Defib is closer to but still inaccurately a “Hearty RE starty.”
Contrary to how fiction usually depicts them- defibrillators aren’t meant to “start” a heart such as when a patient “flatlines.” Generally all you are doing if you defib a flatlined patient is being cruel and wasting time if you plan to save them. When the heart begins an irregular heart beat, like its beating too fast or slow or out of “rhythm,” a defibrillator essentially stops the heart. It’s a “reset” button. If it’s healthy your heart will start itself. When it does it hopefully “resets” to the correct rhythm. So the tool doesn’t start the heart, it “resets” it if it is in fibulation (out of rhythm) hence DEfibulator. It DE fibulates things.
Contrary to how fiction usually depicts them- defibrillators aren’t meant to “start” a heart such as when a patient “flatlines.” Generally all you are doing if you defib a flatlined patient is being cruel and wasting time if you plan to save them. When the heart begins an irregular heart beat, like its beating too fast or slow or out of “rhythm,” a defibrillator essentially stops the heart. It’s a “reset” button. If it’s healthy your heart will start itself. When it does it hopefully “resets” to the correct rhythm. So the tool doesn’t start the heart, it “resets” it if it is in fibulation (out of rhythm) hence DEfibulator. It DE fibulates things.