Factual error: During the defibrillation scenes, the 'doctors' rub the paddles together before delivering the electrical shock. Yet there is no gel on the paddles, and no gel pads on the 'patient' either.
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Flatliners (1990) - 3 major mistakes
starring Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, William Baldwin (add more)
Continuity: Rachel's father kills himself after returning home from the Vietnam war (presumably in the early 70's) addicted to morphine. The problem with this is that he kills himself in a 1978 or '79 Ford pickup - Ford did not produce any pick-ups with square headlights until those years.
Factual error: Asystole (the lack of cardiac activity, also known as the 'flatline') is not treated with defibrillation (electric shocks) but with alternating doses of the drugs epinephrine and atropine.
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