trivia question -- TV medical drama condition -- D-fib -- real term or nonsense?

[wanfox]

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In a lot of TV medical dramas these days, one hears an emergency medical condition called "DFIB", or perhaps "D-Fib," or maybe even "Defib".

One person suggested they are saying "V-fib," but it definitely sounds like "D-fib" to me.

Now, I know what defibrillation is, and that a defibrillator is used to (hopefully) "reset" a heart into its natural rhythm (i.e., stop fibrillation, or irregular/disfunctional heart rhythm).

So, the former term is a good thing, not a bad thing, so are TV drama actors just spouting nonsense, or does D-fib refer to something else entirely...I don't know, maybe diastolic fibrillation, if that makes sense?

Been looking for a good answer to this question for a while now. 😳

Thanks!

 

[theseeker4]

In a lot of TV medical dramas these days, one hears an emergency medical condition called "DFIB", or perhaps "D-Fib," or maybe even "Defib".

One person suggested they are saying "V-fib," but it definitely sounds like "D-fib" to me.

Now, I know what defibrillation is, and that a defibrillator is used to (hopefully) "reset" a heart into its natural rhythm (i.e., stop fibrillation, or irregular/disfunctional heart rhythm).

So, the former term is a good thing, not a bad thing, so are TV drama actors just spouting nonsense, or does D-fib refer to something else entirely...I don't know, maybe diastolic fibrillation, if that makes sense?

Been looking for a good answer to this question for a while now. 😳

Thanks!

V-fib should be used when talking about the condition, D-fib the device to correct it. Either you are hearing it wrong, or they are using it wrong.

 

[TheMightySmiter]

Defib is just short for defibrillator.

 

[wanfox]

hmm...I suppose they could be implying that someone is applying D-fib to correct V-fib, but that's not how it's often used. More like the patient is in D-fib, so "do something," so, yeah...wrong.

 

[ppfizenm]

hmm...I suppose they could be implying that someone is applying D-fib to correct V-fib, but that's not how it's often used. More like the patient is in D-fib, so "do something," so, yeah...wrong.

In all the medical tv shows I've seen they always say V-fib. I assume you mean what they shout when the monitor makes the noise that means the heart has gone into v-fib. You may just be hearing it wrong, like how people mess up song lyrics.

 

[wanfox]

No, I'm pretty sure what I've heard is D-fib...like, "the patient is in D-fib, doctor, what should I do?" Duh. Well there's one way to be certain. Next time watch the episode with CC enabled on the TV. Maybe the TV itself can make sense of it.

 

[TheMightySmiter]

No, I'm pretty sure what I've heard is D-fib...like, "the patient is in D-fib, doctor, what should I do?" Duh. Well there's one way to be certain. Next time watch the episode with CC enabled on the TV. Maybe the TV itself can make sense of it.

Yeah, either you're mishearing or they're using the wrong term.

 

[ppfizenm]

No, I'm pretty sure what I've heard is D-fib...like, "the patient is in D-fib, doctor, what should I do?" Duh. Well there's one way to be certain. Next time watch the episode with CC enabled on the TV. Maybe the TV itself can make sense of it.

What show is it out of curiosity?

 

[DISCOSTEW]

hmm...I suppose they could be implying that someone is applying D-fib to correct V-fib, but that's not how it's often used. More like the patient is in D-fib, so "do something," so, yeah...wrong.

wtf?

 

[david199380]

V-fib, is short for ventricular fibrillation which is when the heat is not pumping or moving any blood, but vibrating.

 

[Midwestern Blot]

D-derp

 

[WTEngel]

D-Fib is not a short term for any medical condition, as others have mentioned, it is a short term for defibrillation, which is unsynchronized electrical therapy provided for conversion of disorganized cardiac dysrhythmias.

So you are either hearing it wrong, and the actors are saying "The patient is in V-Fib" or the actors are using the term D-Fib incorrectly.

Either way, probably not worth the time or effort to concern yourself about it...medical dramas get stuff wrong quite a bit, or use poetic license in order to facilitate dramatic presence over medical accuracy.

 

[UnclePhil]

Is this really a thread worthy topic?

 

[Bacchus]

As an aside, if anyone watched the most recent Grey's Anatomy episode, the aphasia the young AAF patient developed after her menigioma removal was not Broca's aphasia as they diagnosed. She was talking fluently but without identifiable words which is Wernicke's aphasia.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Reference:
Wernicke's
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTdMV6cOZw[/youtube]

Broca's
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12dO78c6-q8[/youtube]

 

[CeeEstee0]

D-derp

This made me lol. Heeheehee...

 

[QuizzicalApe]

I am diagnosing the OP with stupid-ears. Bill will be sent by PM.

 

[armybound]

As an aside, if anyone watched the most recent Grey's Anatomy episode, the aphasia the young AAF patient developed after her menigioma removal was not Broca's aphasia as they diagnosed. She was talking fluently but without identifiable words which is Wernicke's aphasia.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Reference:
Wernicke's
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTdMV6cOZw[/youtube]

Broca's
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12dO78c6-q8[/youtube]

I didn't watch the show, but you're correct based on description.