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Conditions that can lead to VF include:
• Congenital heart disease
• Electrocution accidents or injury to the heart
• Heart attack
• Heart muscle disease or cardiomyopathy
• Heart surgery
• Ischemia
(lack of oxygen to the heart muscle because of narrowed coronary arteries or shock)
• Sudden cardiac death, typically occurring in athletes after a trauma over the surface of the heart
Introduction to defibrillation
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