Defibrillation

Almost everyone who has ever seen any version of a medical program has seen the telehyped version of defibrillation. The tense scene where someone is close to dying and the Dr says "We need to shock him" and the ensuing rush of action then "CLEAR" and the shock evidenced by the convulsing of the sick patient. The outcome of that generally follows two paths, either the person is fixed and they live happily ever after or after multiple shocks the dr says, "Time of death 2:45am". Now why would I refresh your memory of this much seen event.
Well I have good reason. I defibrillated someone yesterday. He had ventricular tachycardia (basically the lower part of the heart beating so fast that it loses its effectiveness and blood doesnt get pumped around the body. Remember blood is good) and he was lying on the bed with IV fluids going and anti-arrhythmia drugs being pumped in and oxygen on and I thought he was doing not too bad as far as they go. He was conscious so thats always a good sign. Then the Dr who was standing in the room with us watching the patient and the monitor said to me (cuz i was standing next to the monitoring/defibrillation machine) do you know which buttons to press to shock him. And i didnt and had to quickly look to find the buttons apropriately named Charge and Shock and literally within about 15 seconds as the Dr was walking to the head of the bed to get ready to maintain the airway, the guy started to arrest and suddenly everything moved very fast and everyone got ready to help the guy and I was told to press charge and then I waited till the Dr said "CLEAR" and everyone moved away and I pressed the shock button. I was so scared. But the guy cardioverted with the first shock and then it was a matter of calling the helicopter retrieval team to take him to toowoomba where he can be looked after by the heart specialists.
So that was my excitment for the day.