How a Healthy Heart Works

Your heart is meant to pump oxygen-rich blood and nutrients to organs and other parts around your body. The following figure demonstrates this. The Four Pumping Chambers of the Heart Veins carry blood lacking oxygen from the body to the heart’s right atrium. There, the blood comes to the right ventricle, which pumps this blood […]

Pacemakers and ICDs

In an effort to fix abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias, and allow your heart to beat more efficiently, you doctor may suggest a device implant. The most common of these are pacemakers and implantable cardioverter/defibrillators (ICDS); these are implanted in the cardiac cath lab or during surgery. Pacemakers: These are small implanted devices meant to correct […]