What is the Advantage of Biphasic Defibrillation over Monophasic?
Biphasic defibrillation was introduced after the traditional heart defibrillators were released, which are monophasic. These two devices are used to bring a heart back to normal rhythm after going into cardiac arrest. There was a lot of hype about the biphasic defibrillators being so much better and that so many more lives were going to be saved with these devices. However, these two different devices are serving the same purpose and are equivalent. A monophasic defibrillator sends a single shock into the body in one direction. This charge only goes in one direction. The biphasic defibrillator sends half of a shock into the body in one direction and the other half of the charge in the opposite direction. This defibrillator alternates directions in about 10 milliseconds, which is considered to be a cycle. Even though they send shock waves differently throughout the body, they work the same, and neither device has proven to work better in saving people at all. They both have the same res
