Can A Defibrillator Actually Explode A Nitroglycerin Patch? | MythBusters

The myth sounds like a medical thriller plot point — a paramedic shouts "clear," fires the defibrillator, and the nitroglycerin heart medication patches on the patient's chest detonate — and Kari, Tory and Grant decided the only way to know for sure was to build a homemade defibrillator, strap nitroglycerin patches to a ballistics gel chest, and find out whether the electric shock could set them off, and when the patches failed to detonate they brought in a pyrotechnics expert and poured concentrated nitroglycerin directly into a cavity in the chest to make absolutely sure — because the Build Team does not half-measures a medical myth, especially one where Tory inevitably injures himself somewhere along the way and Grant's electronics get soaked in the rain, and the answer is busted, definitively, with enough leftover nitro to make things very interesting on the way out. Subscribe so you never miss an experiment:    / @mythbusterstvshow   Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it. #MythBusters #AdamSavage #ScienceExperiments