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How the heart works

Chapter 1

The four-chambered engine

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Chapter 2

The spark of life

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Chapter 3

Mapping the flow

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Chapter 4

Hearts under pressure

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Ch 2 · The spark of life
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artiteacher The delay that saves lives

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artiteacher Reading the electrical lines

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artiteacher Beating outside the body

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artiteacher The built-in natural pacemaker

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Little Life Spark

artiteacher Little Life Spark

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artiteacher The spark of life

An electric spark, Beating in the dark, Pumping on its own!

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Reading the electrical lines

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Fun Fact

Heart electricity: The electrical energy generated by the human heart is strong enough to be measured from several feet away with sensitive detectors.

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The delay that saves lives

artiteacher The delay that saves lives

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Glossary
pacemaker (noun)
A specialized area of heart muscle, or an implanted electronic device, that regulates the heartbeat. In 1958, Swedish inventor Rune Elmqvist designed the first implantable model to regulate irregular heartbeats.

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Quiz

What is the term for the heart's ability to generate its own electrical impulses independently?

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Gossip

Would you wear a continuous heart monitor?

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Quiz

Which wave on an ECG graph represents the contraction of the heart's ventricles?

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Quiz

What happens to a human heart's electrical rhythm during a state of deep sleep?

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Quiz

How do electrical signals travel from the AV node down to the bottom of the ventricles?

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Quiz

What mineral is most critical for carrying the electrical charge across cardiac cell membranes?

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Quiz

Why does the atrioventricular (AV) node briefly delay the electrical signal in the heart?

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Quiz

Who invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG) to measure heart electricity in 1901?

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Quiz

What is the name of the natural pacemaker that initiates the heartbeat in humans?

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