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Originally Posted by bigt2k4
He was getting defibrillated on the field, so his heart had stopped and therefore by some definitions he was dead.
(I think clinically dead is the term that is used)
technically once he flatlined, defib is useless
AED is used to detect an irregular heartbeat and administer a shock to help a heart to start beating in a regular rhythm - think of it as CTRL-ALT-DEL for a frozen PC, but if your power supply goes no software can bring it back to life
what they show in the movies is just some Hollywood magic