Metabolic Mapping and Cardiac Resynchronization

A pacemaker is an implantable, battery-powered minicomputer that sends electrical pulses to the heart whenever it detects a slow heartbeat or no heartbeat at all. When it senses a slow heartbeat or lack of heartbeat, it sends electrical impulses to restore a normal rhythm. Cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers, or CRT-Ps, treat heart failure by resynchronizing electrical impulses in the heart's four chambers, improving the heart's ability to pump blood to the body effectively and efficiently.