Artificial Heart
A manmade heart. Also called a total artificial heart (TAH)
A manmade heart. Also called a total artificial heart (TAH)
These are man made substitutes for heart valves, used to replace a defective valve.
Recognized as a way to pace-terminate certain types of arrhythmias, especially slow monomorphic VT involving a reentry circuit. The idea is to deliver a few seconds of pacing stimuli to the heart at a rate faster than tachycardia