ICD在心脏性猝死中的应用--培训课件.pptVIP

Your heart pumps blood to other organs in your body. The pumping action, or contractions, are coordinated by the heart’s own electrical circuit. This electrical system can malfunction causing an arrhythmia. Arrhythmias are very common and are defined as heart rates that are too slow, too fast or irregular. The vast majority of arrhythmias are harmless, but some can be serious. One rhythm that is very dangerous is ventricular fibrillation (VF). When the heart is in ventricular fibrillation it will stop beating effectively and stop pumping blood to the body. When this happens there is no blood