A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the heart's natural pacemaker) is a medical device that uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contracting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart.

Now, your pacemaker is not a single cell.

The primary purpose of a pacemaker is to maintain an adequate heart rate, either because the heart's natural pacemaker is not fast enough, or there is a block in the heart's electrical conduction system.

But what's really amazing is that the cells, when we electrically stimulate them, like with a pacemaker, that they beat so much more.

And I learned how to slow my heart rate down.

Form a company to develop a neuro pacemaker for epilepsy, as well as other diseases of the brain, because all diseases of the brain are a result of some electrical malfunction in it, that causes many, if not all, of brain disorders.

Like, take, for instance, your pacemaker cells in your heart right now.

And then he did it again. We filled the balloon again a few minutes later and here you see, even after 10 seconds, a great rise in this piece, which we can have computers inside, under your chest like a pacemaker, with a wire into your heart like a pacemaker.

This gradient may be increased by increases in the heart rate or cardiac output.

The drugs suppressed arrhythmias disturbances of the heartbeat associated with sudden death.

It affects almost every physiological process in the body, including growth and development, metabolism, body temperature, and heart rate.

The pulse rate can also be measured by listening directly to the heartbeat using a stethoscope.

One patient with atypical Timothy syndrome was largely normal with the exception of heart arrhythmia.

In general, tissues may be recovered from donors up to 24 hours past the cessation of heartbeat.

A newborn or infant can have a heart rate of about 130 150 beats per minute.

Other common symptoms of Timothy syndrome are cardiac arrhythmia (94 ), heart malformations (59 ), autism or an autism spectrum disorder (80 who survive long enough for evaluation).

I put it on my finger, switch it on, and in about 20 seconds it'll give me, on the little screen here, a value of hemoglobin, oxygen saturation and heart rate.

The average heart rate for male dancers in Standard was 170 beats.min 1 and 168 beats.min 1 in the Latin American.

Now this is the part of the nervous system that deals with the things that we don't consciously control, like digestion, heart rate and sexual arousal.

In the case of diabetic autonomic neuropathy, it is due to the failure of the heart and arteries to appropriately adjust heart rate and vascular tone to keep blood continually and fully flowing to the brain.

For the first time in history, terrorism gives insurgents the ability to strike directly at their enemies external allies.

Stress, exercise, and emotion can all result in a normal or physiological increase in heart rate, but can also, more rarely, precipitate SVT.

Recent studies have shown that those subjects who have an extremely high occurrence of PVCs (several thousand a day) can develop dilated cardiomyopathy.

Their study had found a higher death rate among patients receiving a new anti arrhythmic drug than among those receiving a placebo.

The Bush administration has put expansion of democracy at the center of its foreign policy.

In the last decade, organized crime has evolved rapidly, propelled by the opening of new markets, facilitated by new communication technologies and pressured by law enforcement strikes.

Physiological scaling Many physiological and biochemical processes (such as heart rate, respiration rate or the maximum reproduction rate) show scaling, mostly associated with the ratio between surface area and mass (or volume) of the animal.

Its extended recording period is sometimes useful for observing occasional cardiac arrhythmias or epileptic events which would be difficult to identify in a shorter period of time.

When food is scarce, they divert nutrients towards the really critical organ, the brain, and away from other organs like the heart and liver.

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Flecainide works by regulating the flow of sodium in the heart, causing prolongation of the cardiac action potential.

A toddler's heart will beat about 100 120 times per minute, an older child's heartbeat is around 60 100 beats per minute, adolescents around 80 100 beats per minute, and adults' pulse rate is anywhere between 50 and 80 beats per minute.

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The penalty for trafficking in women was automatically imprisonment in virtually all cases.

Behind the brothers were other security agencies the Internal Security Forces, the Revolutionary Committees, and, to a lesser extent, the Jamahiriya Security Apparatus (Foreign Intelligence).

Drone strikes against suspected Al Qaeda operatives have been launched under expanded authority allowing the CIA and military to fire based only on the targets' intelligence signatures or patterns of behaviour, without knowing their identity.

All economists agree that we should allow the automatic stabilizers to work.

When the economy is growing, automatic stabilizers work their magic.

You know, back in 2000, we were all so obsessed with paying attention to the aging of our computers, and whether or not they were going to survive the tick of the clock from 1999 to 2000, that we missed a moment that only demographers were paying attention to.

However, in the majority of spontaneous cases of premature ovarian failure, the cause is unknown, i.e.

Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

The cardiac impulse is the result of the heart rotating, moving forward and striking against the chest wall during systole.