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FireBeyondlast Saturday at 8:31 PM0 repliesview on HN

Precisely. Well, when you're talking about AEDs - VF and VT.

Defib is more like rebooting a malfunctioning heart, versus jump starting it.

Paramedics with a manual defibrillator can do other things with other rhythms, but AEDs are limited to those.