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Your heart is made up of different chambers. The heart is made up of muscle tissue. When the chambers expand, they pull in blood and when they contract they push blood out. This is what causes the blood to circulate through the body, get oxygenated, etc. The pumping sound is the heartbeat. What causes the heart muscles to expand and contract? Very tiny electrical signals are sent from the brain and delivered to the heart via the nerves. Various medical conditions cause the nerves to deliver these electrical signals at wrong times. This causes the heart to stutter; it attempts to push blood out before it has fully pulled it in from the other side. No proper circulation to organs and the brains causes blackouts and eventual death. For such cases, doctors implant a small device called a pacemaker into the nervous system which deliver the properly timed electrical signals to the heart and makes it beat in a regular manner.
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What do pacemakers and defibrillators do?
Pacemakers and defibrillators provide electrical impulses to the heart, which can return the heart beat to a normal rhythm.
How many pacemakers can a person have?
A person can only have one pacemaker. A pacemaker helps if you have problems with the beating of your heart. If you have two pacemakers the beating of your heart won't be normal.
How is plutonium used in heart pacemakers?
Yes, the isotope plutonium 238 was used in the past as power source for pacemakers.
Did battery saved lives?
Yes, those in pacemakers for the heart.
How many types of pacemakers are available?
Pacemakers can be internal (placed under the skin) or external, with the electrodes placed on the skin or threaded through a tube placed into the heart.
What is the functionality of a Pacemaker, and are they safe?
Pacemakers regulate the heart beat. They are very safe.
What is the pacemakers function?
A pacemaker is nothing but a specialized mass of muscle tissue present in the wall of the heart. It initiates the heart beat.
Is determining if 3000 heart pacemakers effective or defective a binomial probability?
idon't know
The SA node is the normal pacemaker of the heart because the SA node?
depolarizes to its threshold potential before other pacemakers in the heart
When are pacemakers used for heart blocks?
Some second- and almost all third-degree heart blocks require an artificial pacemaker.
Who should not have electroacupuncture?
Electroacupuncture should not be used on people who have seizures, epilepsy, histories of heart disease or strokes, or those with heart pacemakers.
What cell set the pace for the beating for the heart as a whole?
Purkinje fibers
