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Background on cardiac arrest and defibrillators For normal function, the heart needs organized electrical impulses to contract the muscles and pump blood throughout the body. A cardiac arrest occurs when the electrical system of the heart becomes chaotic and disorganized and the heart becomes still. This condition is known as ventricular fibrillation, and the best treatment to 're-start the heart' is an electric shock to the heart to jolt it back into its regular rhythm (defibrillation)..... View more detail.

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