A carpenter friend of mine was just in the hospital for a little while yesterday with fibrillation issues. They put some electrode patches on his chest and put some current through to stimulate or regulate or whatever. But out of curiosity he asked how many volts they were using and the tech or doc responded 200 joules.
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule tells me 1 watt-hour = 3600 joules.
.056 watt-hour = 200 joules
The more I think about it I think the answer my friend got was because that was the setting on the machine was, not that the tech or doc necessarily understood the theory.
But that leads to my question....
Why would the machine have a joule setting? Any wild guesses?
Also any idea how electricity is used as medicine? Do they regulate amperage and ramp up the voltage to overcome resistance?
