There's been no shortage of those. He grabbed the paddles and placed them over two metal circles on Stan's chest. He tried 300 joules, then 360. Still no good. He looked for a syringe of lidocaine.
Protocol calls for giving epinephrine before lidocaine.
Epinephrine helps restore normal heart rhythm, and lidocaine prevents the heart from going back into the abnormal rhythm. Stan wouldn't respond to lidocaine alone. Stortz grabbed the epinephrine syringe and injected it into a port near Stan's head. The syringe actually contained water, but a bar code on the side told Stan which drug he was getting. He beeped when he finished reading the code.