Showing papers in "Journal of Applied Physiology in 1953"
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined the property of an electrical discharge upon which the ability to stimulate living tissue depends, in particular the ability of producing a saturation stimulation of the heart, and demonstrated that intense condenser discharges through the chest need not produce any deleterious effects.
Abstract: The experiments reported in this paper served three major purposes: 1) They defined that property of an electrical discharge upon which the ability to stimulate living tissue depends, in particular the ability to produce a saturation stimulation of the heart. 2) They demonstrated that intense condenser discharges through the chest need not produce any deleterious effects. 3) They showed that one can produce defibrillation of the ventricles of a canine heart, through the closed chest, by such a discharge.