countershock

He tugged, and the resulting countershock almost knocked him from his feet.

But a countershock reflex was going to work, replenishing the physical resources that had shut down in the attack.

At that instant, hit it with all our aft defense beams to create a countershock."

Most of the time you don't even know it's happening, not until a countershock jars you free of it.

"That's going to be followed almost immediately by countershock, a quick increase in the adrenocortical hormones-steroid hormones.

"After countershock, a resistance phase settles in.

My countershock came when I slammed hard into the ground, facedown among twigs and thin grass and leaves.

It will be a trifling countershock to wing an aeroplane or so, or blow a torpedo-boat out of the water.

A countershock to her heart eliminated the fibrillation but resulted in asystole, meaning there was no electrical activity or beat whatsoever.

Some of the people, but not all of them, felt the outre1 countershock of Joan's mind reaching out to meet the Lady Goroke.

If countershock is left untreated for that long, there's a good chance our girl's in for a long, long stay in a very quiet rest home."

While the other drugs they'd ordered would help empty it out, the definitive step to solve the problem- slowing down her heart- had to be done by a synchronized countershock of electricity.

The aggravation can be manifested as an increase in the frequency of arrhythmic episodes, in their duration, in the rate of the arrhythmia, or as an altered response of the arrhythmia to DC countershock.

More than a decade of research went into the development of an implantable defibrillator that would automatically sense the onset of ventricular fibrillation and deliver an electric countershock within 15-20 seconds, converting the rhythm to sinus rhythm.

Yet he couldn't keep himself from imagining what might have happened, her body bluish-white from death surrounded by strangers sticking her with needles and pounding on her chest, her limbs convulsively jerking then flopping back lifeless after each countershock from the defibrillator, her eyes, still alive, staring straight at him. "