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The Heart Plumber – What Is a Cardiac Cath Lab?

You’re in the shower, just singing away. Then it happens—you notice that water is beginning to pool around your feet. Before you know it, your ankles are submerged and the water is definitely not draining. Great. Just great. After you turn off the water, it finally drains, but you’re not looking forward to the unclogging [...]

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How Does an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Work?

An Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator or ICD is a device that can protect people with heart rhythm disorders associated with a weak heart. An ICD not only functions as a typical pacemaker, which stimulates the heart to contract when it is beating too slow, but can also deliver an intense shock to reset the heart’s rhythm if [...]

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Interventional Cardiology—Amazing Procedures for the Amazing Heart

Just to give you your daily dose of wow, these five facts about the heart might shed a little more light on just how amazing your heart truly is. On average the heart will beat 2.5 billion times in a lifetime! You’re more likely to have a heart attack on Monday morning than at any [...]

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