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Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?

The Joy of Why

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The Effects of Spiral Waves on the Heart

In the case of Demar Hamlin, what do you guess happened to him when he was hit? The way that you initiate these spiral waves in the heart, you break the symmetry of the waves. And it can produce a wave that's basically in one direction but in another phase of propagation. So we'll never be sure of what happens, right? But most likely what could have happened, that's what I thought at the very beginning when you happen. That's really what we want to talk about.

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