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Ventricular fibrillation of long duration abolished by electric shock.

BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971) Wikipedia
PRITCHARD, Walter Herbert (1910 – 1982) International Journal of Cardiology
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J. Amer. med. Assoc., 135, 985-86. 1947.

The first successful defibrillation of a surgical patient, with the chest opened, and the paddles applied directly to the heart. With  H.S. Feil.

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