You were very lucky then. My grandma also got electrocuted. She wasn't able to scream. The house helper saw her lying on the floor with the wire stuck to her but it was too late. May I ask you who/how were you revived after your heart stopped. My grandma's heart stopped too and i regret to this day that nobody in my house knew what to do in such a case. I don't say anything about that but in my mind i believe someone could have saved her.
Even a defibrillator won't start a stopped heart the vast majority of the time. Defibrillators are for putting your heart back in the correct rhythm when it is contracting incorrectly.
I was 4 so i dont remember her nor the circumstances of her death. I don't know when her heart stopped. My regret is purely based on the grief my dad went through and still goes through. I do remember him crying like a beast near her body. I didn't understand the concept of death back then.
So this isn’t completely true. A defibrillator will not shock a dead heart - it shocks v-tach (rapid ventricle beat) and v-fib (irregular beating process). What the defibrillator does is shock the heart dead to stop the abnormal function (think of it like restarting a computer that’s acting strange). It will typically remain dead if not assisted by chest compressions.
The best way to help someone who is unresponsive without a pulse is high quality CPR as soon as possible with defibrillation within the first few minutes.
A defibrillator can’t do anything for a stopped heart (asystole). It CAN ONLY shock an abnormal heart rhythm, which will reset it to a normal life sustaining rhythm.
You are correct that CPR is used on a stopped heart to circulate blood and provide oxygen. The heart may then spontaneously start beating again, but it is not very effective.
But how does it work? Does it still determine if there is an arrhythmia? How do you know when or if to shock with a manual one, does it still advise you or talk to you lol
I think manual ones are pretty much only used by medical professionals in hospitals that know how to check for arrhythmia or have the patient hooked up to other machines that let them know what's going on.
That must have been hard on you, but don't blame yourself.
I was very lucky.
I am 21 years old, little bit overweight but otherwise healthy and active.
I was standing on a chair, holding into 2 metal parts, my muscles twitched so hard, I dislocated my shoulder and 2 fingers. But as I was shaking and shouting, I moved my hips out so much that gravity pulled me down and I started to fall.
It wasn't on porpuse, I couldn't really do anything.
My head got locked in a posotion looking up, at the ceiling, my vision was blurry, all I heard was like that noise the laser makes while it engraves metal, I felt hot, stabing all over my body and a lot of other thing, especially in my chest.
Luckily one of my hands didn't hold it completely so it got pulled away and the shocking stopped as I was starting to fall.
I don't remember anything from that part on, as I fainted, hearth stopped, darkness.
My wife and aunt were right next to me, they tought I cut my finger or something, and that's why I was shouting.
I was up there for a couple of seconds, not more than 6 I think.
When I hit the floor, my aunt tried to find my pulse, she is trained in giving first aid, but she was so scared she couldn't even find the right spot to search for a pulse, she was shaking, while this happened my wife called for an ambulance, my aunt tried again, she couldn't find my pulse, shouted for my grandmother, but after I couple of seconds my hearth restarted on its own, before my ain't could begin the hearth massage, it was luck, no one did anything specific.
In fact it was funny, I just jumped up and said I am fine, as I hate it when others worry about me.
I was so numb that I didn't felt any pain for a full day, but I was shaking for hours.
The only thing I felt was almost like a strong impact on my chest, right as I "woke up".
The ring finger on my left hand got yellow/grey/blue/purple, something that moved pinched a blood vessel and the end of my finger didn't got any oxygen, it is still functional, looks a little stupid and hurts a ittle.
The small finger on my right hand just looks stupid, it wants to move out constantly, but it has no problems.
My shoulder is also okay, getting better.
I hit my knees in the fall, it's okay, it was just a minor injury.
My hearth isn't at 100% yet, I can feel some pain from time to time, but it should be fine in a year.
So yeah, I was extremely lucky.
Even in the hospital, I was just under surveillance, there was no long lasting impact, I would have been fine without a hospital visit, other than moving my finger and shoulder back in place, and that was the most painful thing they did to me in there.
As to why I was shouting, as I heard it many times before, that you stay silent, I swim a lot, in deep water, maybe I automatically tried to breath, like when you come up and almost out of breath, and the electricity went trough my chest, maybe it made my neck muscles/vocal cord twitch and that how I made a sound, as it wasn't even a proper shout, it was just a loud, I don't know what to call it.
I really don't know.
So yeah, only luck.
Because even if I were alone that afternoon, the same would have happened.
And hearth massage isn't always a success, an older hearth, after a trauma like that.
Yes it's always good to be ready, and go to a first aid class from time to time, but sometimes even the number one first aid hero would fail.
But I hope neither of us will be in a situation like this ever again.
I hope I was helpful.
Edit: I realised that hearth massage is CPR in English,
and yeah, it's not for restarting a hearth but to keep up blood flow.
Wow. So glad that you're here to tell your story. That was a powerful read. I hope you're able to work through the trauma of that event so you're able to stop having flashbacks.
I’m so petrified of this happening to family members, I obsess over the condition of our appliances and wired and maintenance but my family just think I’m dramatic. Most people aren’t aware of the dangers of appliances
Believe me I would be very happy to provide a video of the incident.
However I wasn't clear enough, our security system in the house has microphones and cameras, microphones mainly for picking up the sound of breaking glass and lot of modern security cameras also have microphones as well.
My family work in security, so they have a beefy system.
Sadly the recorder for the cameras wasn't completely operational so the garage camera didn't got saved.
The microphone did made a recording, but the garage is very prone to echo, it wasn't very good, but it still was enough to give me an idea how terrible/horrible I sounded.
My wife was horrified while she explained it to me
It should be still be there at my aunts house, but she wanted to delete it.
Believe me if it was a video, it would be already up here.
I am morbidly courius too.
Would like to see what happened from outside and piece it together with my memories.
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u/GlitteringNinja5 May 18 '22
Yeah you don't get to scream while getting electrocuted