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If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?

 
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If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Artificial pacemakers are electronic devices.


Will an EMP destroy the pacemakers in the hearts of people?


Will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after the EMP?


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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
anyone can confirm that?
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
how many millions of people use pacemakers in the USA?
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Oh shit! I never even thought of that. Anyone have an answer to this?
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Oh shit! I never even thought of that. Anyone have an answer to this?
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It just occured to me...


Now I'm worried...


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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Most likely they would the next time they got excited or scared. (on the darker bright side though, remember Dick Cheney has a pacemaker)

Also affected would be anyone that uses an oxygen machine, home diabetic testing, relies on home elevators to get up/down stairs,...well the list goes on and on, you get the point.
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Approximately 1.5 million Americans have pacemakers, devices designed to keep the heart beating at a steady rhythm. Most pacemaker patients are 65 and older and at an age when illnesses and injuries requiring MRI develop.


[link to heart.beaumont.edu]



oh shit




Over a million people would die just after the EMP attack takes place!

Not to mention people who will be in airplanes caught by the EMP mid-flight....

That's terrible...
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Most likely they would the next time they got excited or scared. (on the darker bright side though, remember Dick Cheney has a pacemaker)

Also affected would be anyone that uses an oxygen machine, home diabetic testing, relies on home elevators to get up/down stairs,...well the list goes on and on, you get the point.
 Quoting: Razgriz


Dick Cheney has a new heart so does he still have the pacemaker?
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Most likely they would the next time they got excited or scared. (on the darker bright side though, remember Dick Cheney has a pacemaker)

Also affected would be anyone that uses an oxygen machine, home diabetic testing, relies on home elevators to get up/down stairs,...well the list goes on and on, you get the point.
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The number of people who would die in the USA in the first 6 hours after the EMP would be THE BIGGEST NUMBER OF DEATHS CAUSED BY A SINGLE EVENT, IN A SINGLE DAY, ever!


Never in History an earthquake, hurricane, nuclear bomb, or other event has caused over one million deaths in a single day...


The EMP will cause...


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some people may think an EMP attack is "fun" and "harmless"...


but the number of people it would kill in a single day would be greater than the number of people ever killed in single day by any earthquake, hurricane or nuclear bomb, EVER!
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What would an EMP attack do to all the nuclear plants and bombs?
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Artificial pacemakers are electronic devices.


Will an EMP destroy the pacemakers in the hearts of people?


Will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after the EMP?


1dunno1
 Quoting: worried 22011742


No matter what the number is, it'll seem very small when there's no fuel to bring the food to the grocery store, no electricity to keep the lights on, and no refrigeration to keep what little food is left from spoiling while we fight each other to decide who gets it.

Modern humans aren't very well adapted to live in the 5th century.
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
What would an EMP attack do to all the nuclear plants and bombs?
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That's another good question.

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What would an EMP attack do to all the nuclear plants and bombs?
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meltdown in the nuke plants?
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Artificial pacemakers are electronic devices.


Will an EMP destroy the pacemakers in the hearts of people?


Will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after the EMP?


1dunno1
 Quoting: worried 22011742


They will all drop dead more or less at the same time.

Same with all those on life support systems.

Within a month of an EMP several million people will be dead..you know..all the ones that WOULD have died if modern science and theigs like electricity have kept alive.
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Artificial pacemakers are electronic devices.


Will an EMP destroy the pacemakers in the hearts of people?


Will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after the EMP?


1dunno1
 Quoting: worried 22011742


They will all drop dead more or less at the same time.

Same with all those on life support systems.

Within a month of an EMP several million people will be dead..you know..all the ones that WOULD have died if modern science and theigs like electricity have kept alive.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37701375




Well, I'm not sure I want to "live" without electricity and modern science

what is THE POINT of living in a HELLHOLE that is this planet without electricity and modern science?

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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
within an hour
Not just pacemakers!
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Any electronic device within the affected EMP area would be vulnerable. Vehicles might still work, especially older models w/o all the electronics, but there would soon be fuel shortages as the stations all use electric pumps.
Persons dependent on insulin or other IV drugs would be SOL if the electric grid went down as there would be no refrigeration. I've heard there is a type of insulin that doesn't need refrigeration; might be a good time to stock up.
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
Artificial pacemakers are electronic devices.


Will an EMP destroy the pacemakers in the hearts of people?


Will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after the EMP?


1dunno1
 Quoting: worried 22011742


they wont die soon after they will die right then and there if i rip your heart out how long do you think you can live for?
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All this EMP talk is scaring the shit out of me.

Seriously. It just is.

Stop it. :(

I don't wanna think about those fucking evil North Korean bastards. I wanna hit one upside the ass so hard their g-ma can feel it.
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You can add to that anybody who needs medications on a daily basis...and those who will die from stopping medications suddenly
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
What would an EMP attack do to all the nuclear plants and bombs?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 252372


Nuclear plants would melt down, as their controls would be disabled and no power would be available for the pumps.

Nuclear weapons would probably be alright, their circuitry may be fried, but it takes a complex chain of events that have to be perfectly executed to set one of them off. IE the conventional explosives have to be detonated in perfect order and the neutron gun must be active.
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Re: If an EMP attack takes place, will people who use artificial pacemakers die of heart attack soon after?
You can add to that anybody who needs medications on a daily basis...and those who will die from stopping medications suddenly
 Quoting: Butterfly girl


Yeah, that would include me. :(
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