课件：心室同步化治疗和起搏器护理科内.ppt

* Let’s compare our heart to this donkey, and our body to the wagon that this donkey has to pull every day. A healthy heart is like an energetic donkey, which without fatigue, pulls the wagon full of weights. Conversely, a diseased heart will have difficulty meeting metabolic demands (or pulling the wagon). * HF is a progressive disease with no therapeutic option to cure the illness. This graph shows the correlation between the severity of HF expressed by the 4 NYHA functional classes and survival as well as hospitalization. You can see a very clear decrease of survival (or in other words