This ‘backup’ pacemaker can keep the heart beating as normal when the mechanism which normally keeps the heart beating fails.
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Pacemakers help regulate slow or skipping heartbeats through electrical currents that run via leads to the heart. Since the first artificial one was implanted into Arne Larsson in 1958, modern pacemakers…
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Adjunct Fellow, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, University of Bath
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Professorial Research Fellow in Physiology, University of Bristol
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Clinical research fellow, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
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Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
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PhD candidate, University of Oxford
