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Several small shocks beat one big one

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Life-threatening abnormalities in the electrical rhythm of the heart are usually treated with the application of a large electric shock. An approach involving a significantly smaller shock energy may be equally effective. See Letter p.235

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  1. Richard A. Gray is in the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993-0002, USA.,

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  2. John P. Wikswo is in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, and of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA.,

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