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Invention of artificial cardiac pacemaker

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Learn More: https://ecgkid.com Take a Course now https://kite.ecgkid.com Do you know that if our heart isn't beating regularly or has suddenly stopped, it can be restored by forcing it to beat again? Artificial cardiac pacemakers, or ACPs, are devices implanted in the heart to avoid irregular beats and, in certain cases, defibrillation. John Hopps, a Canadian electrical engineer who was studying the effects of radiofrequency, produced the first cardiac pacemaker. He discovered that if the hear...

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