Defibrillators have no role in the treatment of asthma patients in general, but they are useful in the rescue of patients with asthma-induced ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.
The main role of defibrillator is to treat ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia and other malignant arrhythmias, in order to quickly restore sinus rhythm, to save the patient’s life, mainly used in cardiac emergencies emergency treatment. Asthma is a respiratory system, the disease is mainly manifested as spasm of the airway, can appear chest tightness, dyspnea, etc., defibrillator for airway spasm is not therapeutic.
Asthma patients blindly use defibrillator, but may cause damage to the body, and may even lead to local muscle as well as cardiac muscle damage and other serious adverse reactions.
Therefore, asthma symptoms of chest tightness need to be actively under the guidance of the doctor asthma treatment, resulting in severe respiratory failure may require endotracheal intubation, the use of respiratory treatment, if not combined with ventricular fibrillation and other cardiac arrhythmias, generally can not be used defibrillator treatment.