What Is the Heart Conduction System? The heart conduction system is made up of cells, nodes, and signals that help your heart to beat. In fact, the cardiac conduction system is responsible for our ...

From your head to your toes, the heart is the organ pumping blood to all parts of your body. So, what regulates the pumping of the heart? Electricity is the answer and like any other machine, the ...

The sinoatrial (SA) node is the natural pacemaker of the heart. It generates electrical impulses that cause the heart’s chambers to contract, setting the heart rate. The SA node typically generates 60 ...

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...

Pacemakers and defibrillators are devices that sit under the skin, in the chest area near a patient's heart. They help with controlling abnormal heart rhythms. A pacemaker can treat an abnormally slow ...

Atrial Fibrillation or Afib for short is responsible for almost 500,000 emergency room visits per year. 12-15 Million people in the US by 2030. As the population ages, Afib will become more prevalent ...

Environmental phenols are found in a wide range of common consumer products. They include preservatives in packaged foods, parabens in shampoos and bisphenol A (BPA) in plastic dishware, so humans ...

One’s plumbing. The other’s electrical. Knowing the difference between heart attack and sudden cardiac arrest can literally be a matter of life and death. While they may sound alike and are both ...