Today, while looking for blog posts about ICDs and cardiac arrhythmias, I came across the Long Q-T Syndrome Blog. The first story I found was by a woman with long Q-T syndrome who had recently had her ICD replaced in Norway.
Once I checked out the blog itself, I found that it’s done by a group [...]

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This video shows an example of simulated anatomical reentry. The view is of a sheet of simulated tissue with a hole in the middle. A wave of electrical activity continuously circles the hole. This is a stable phenomenon, particularly in this simulation. It should go on indefinitely, as long as I let the simulation keep [...]

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Love is a Blue Filter, originally uploaded by julsatmidnight.

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Today while looking for other cardiac electrophysiology blogs (let me know if you find any — I cannot), I came across an article called “Aftershocks” by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett. Here are some excerpts:

In the four years I lived with an automatic implantable cardioversion defibrillator (AICD) while waiting for a heart transplant, I had only a [...]

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I couldn’t resist re-posting this, since its all-caps title and simple picture got a chuckle out of me this morning. From the Science Creative Quarterly, I give you:

A Nice Set of Boobies as seen at the Museum of Natural History.

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