The Different Types of Electrical Leads

The electrical signals flowing through the heart is a complex three-dimensional process, but that's too complicated for any of us to comprehend. So if I was going to try to describe to you what the signal looks like, we got to break it down into a simpler thing. When you're looking at those electrical signals from different angles, it's going to give you kind of different information and you have to interpret it a little bit of a different way. "I imagine that like the true electrophysiologist or the experts in cardiology see like a matrix three dimensional picture of the heart," he says.