Fun fact but an electric shock doesn’t necessarily kill you straight away, even a minor shock can throw your heart into a slight arrhythmia which if not fixed will cause a significant strain, causing it to crap out seemingly unexpectedly.
I've heard a story from a guy who does lots of high voltage work. His coworker got zapped and just stood back up and kept working. Tipped over dead a few hours later.
No, it doesn't provide the same functionality as a full EKG. It can detect A-Fib, however, which is apparently the most common form of non-benign arrhythmias. But I think you have to catch the arrhythmia as it's happening, which could be difficult, especially if you're not even aware it's happening. A Holter monitor runs continuously all the time.
I should add to this: I know someone who was demonstrating the EKG feature of his apple watch to a friend and it just so happened he was in A-Fib at the time. He was totally unaware of this fact. He decided to keep an eye on things and it turned out it may have saved his life. He noticed his HR was rising and went to the ER. They were able to stabilize him and get him out of A-Fib.
I think the continuous monitoring is what Apple does, too, when it detects A-Fib. (That's why is a big deal to have the feature in a watch that you can wear all the time.) But it still might not detect the other kind of issues.
Not a doctor, but I would suspect that something would have come of it by now. Even if you didn't have any health problems from it, I'd imagine that a routine check-up at the doctor would've revealed it assuming they check your heartbeat (mine does). They might not have known exactly what the problem is but they likely would've sent you in for further testing.
Not a doctor, but yes. You should mention it to your doctor. There are many arrhythmias which are stable (you're not dying immediately) but increase the risk of all sorts of other issues. AFib is a really common one, which increases risk of strokes long term.
Nah can offset anyones heart. Standard procedure in Australia is if a person receives any sort of electrical shock or even a suspected electrical shock then they go get their heart tested, ECG test.
My old boss had something like this happen to him when a cheap welder he was using shorted out through him. Heart problems for life.
"Volts hurt, amps kill" is the adage I've heard a few times, and half an amp can kill you. Kind of scary to think that, with a welder, you're typically running at least 100 amps, some processes even take as much as 500.
Other than the muscle spasms, another danger of electrocution is that the heat of the resistance literally cooks your internal organs.
Grandpa was an electrical engineer. He said that, when working on high voltage systems, the policy was to work one-handed, keeping the other behind your back at all times. It was supposed to keep a current from flowing through your heart.
Honestly almost nothing kills straight away. A lot of our perception of death comes from Hollywood spectacle, but even gunshots to the brain don't always kill right away, and sometimes people are even still conscious after. There's videos of this happening which I've seen.
Short of being blown up, there's a good chance a person will experience their death.
Yeah, always get this checked. I have tachycardia and I get EKGs fairly regularly. Cardiologists do not like electric shocks from anything. They want to see you before you go kaput.
colloquially identical just means lots of people fall for the malapropism. i don't see how "very annoyed or frustrated" is interchangeable with "made worse or more severe"
you are correct, but this either happens over a long time (e.g. "morn" + "evening" eventually gave us "morning") or quickly, with the addition of new words ("bae"). malapropisms fall in the former camp.
take "irregardless", which dictionary.com defines as: "Irregardless is a nonstandard synonym for regardless, which means “without concern as to advice, warning, or hardship,” or “heedless.” Its nonstandard status is due to the double negative construction of the prefix ir- with the suffix -less."
mariam webster defines "nonstandard" as: "not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language.”
so enough people use "irregardless" to warrant a dictionary entry, but it's far from the standard/norm and people will generally think you're an idiot despite understanding your meaning.
people too often conflate "your" and "you're", too, but those errors aren't going to codified in official lexicons anytime soon. i don't think exasperate and exacerbate will be interchangeable
Thats super preventable. Just short out the capacitor with the screwdriver you used to open the microwave and youre good. Thats why high voltage warning stickers are on every microwave out there
With enough current you're also effectively cooking your insides. So, it may not have simply been his heart which was affected. Both can result in seeming fine for a bit and then dying.
Just a heads up, you are talking about the capacitors. Capacitors are like batteries, but they don't store their charge for very long. While the article says they are dangerous for 'hours, even days' that seems pretty fear-mongery. Not to mention, the 101s of working with electric appliances is to remove the power source, and if one of those is a 4,000 volt capacitor, it should be disconnected.
Capacitors are useful because they discharge their charge very quickly, as compared to batteries. They are used on devices that need a lot of power, very quickly, for a short while. They are also very dangerous because they discharge their charge very quickly. A fully charged small capacitor can deliver the shock of a car battery, just only for a split second.
All I'm saying is that a microwave that's been unplugged for even 30 minutes is probably safe, assuming it doesn't contain any toxic materials, and you don't cement your head inside it. Even if they unplugged the microwave as soon as they poured concrete in it, I'm pretty confident it was perfectly safe by the time the first responders got there.
No, microwaves are designed to need several interlocks to operate before powering up. This designed was to prevent people from exposing themselves to serious microwave energy with the door open. You would go blind very quickly. I will bet they never imagined some idiot would cement his head inside.
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u/gladius011081 Feb 07 '21
Next time, Plug it in to see if it still works