Wut???
The Automated External Defibrillator (AED) will not send a shock if the patient is not in ventricular fibrillation. They might have a pulse if in ventricular tachycardia the AED can be auto-synced to send the charge at the right time.
Defibrillation is meant to stop the heart, yes.
A chaotic rhythm can’t not provide life sustaining circulation.
So when the patient is Defibrillated (shocked) usually around 280-360 joules, it stops the heart completely with hopes that CPR and/or medications can restart the heart minus the chaotic rhythm.
So yes, someone in SVTs, V-Fib, will have a pulse but they’re not pumping blood with that pulse and distal pulses are very faint or some times not present.
I think Mom MD was just dumbing it down for lay people rather than explain more as I did.
But it seems like you have knowledge with an AED.
For people that are movie buffs:
When they show on T.V. Shows or in movies the patient is “Flatline” and then the docs grab the paddles and yell “CLEAR” and zap them, that’s not why we Defibrillate someone. We Defibrillate to achieve “Flatline” and Stop the heart.
Defibrillation of someone in “Flatline” does not restart their heart.
Medication and CPR are the only way. But Hollywood drama is what it is.
stable v tach with a pulse/blood pressure should not be defibrillated in the field v fib definitely. V tach with hypotension or chest pain yes but I was speaking in generalities. It’s the real thing if medic were defibrillating in the field