RedDiamondDom
Posts: 1
Joined: 1/1/2004 Status: offline
|
As an anesthesiologist, I am responsible for the electrical safety of patients undergoing surgery. Leakage current, macro shock, micro shock, defibrillation, pacemaker malfunction, milliamps, nerve stimulation, electrocautery, grounded vs ungrounded, joules, square waves, pulsed, bipolar, biphasic, etc etc etc are all part of my daily professional lexicon. Much of what is written above is wrong. Much is right. Much is essentially right, but written so unclearly as to be rendered useless. Without going into too many technical details, let me just say: DON'T PLAY WITH ELECTRICITY. The above post says it well: it "should probably be safe." Of course, considering the stakes we're playing for here, PROBABLY ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH. Electricity is fickle. As the device around your neck ages, so too will the delivery of electricity. One day you're sweating, another you're not. One day the battery is fresh, another it is old. Many other factors will affect the consistency of the effects. And the effects WILL vary. All it takes is for ONE time that a small clot of blood forms in the carotid artery, which ends up getting stuck in your brain and causing a stroke, to make all of the theorhetical discussions moot. The woman with the brain-damaged dog? That is not theory. That is practice. This is high-stakes stuff. If you do play with it, avoid the neck, head and heart. But I recommend you don't play with electricity at all. It is basically impossible to be sure that it won't end in catastrophe.
|