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Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?

The Joy of Why

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The Importance of Teleportation in Fibrillation

Every time you have fibrillation, you have many spiral waves. When you terminate all of them, it's by matching each one with their counterpart. So when you do the big shock, that's actually effectively what you're doing. You excite all the tissue such that you're connecting all the spiral waves from one direction to the spiral waves in the other direction.

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