Cardiac ablation surgery
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Your heart beats because it makes little electrical impulses that follow a certain path. Like lights going on and off in a normal, sequential manner.
A heart arrhythmia (abnormal beating pattern) can happen when one part of your heart has an extra electrical impulse where it’s not supposed to be, throwing things off. So think of an extra light switch being put in that makes everything go wild, turning on and off a bunch of new light switches in ways that don’t follow that normal path anymore.
An ablation is basically when they find that little switch that’s making all the other lights go wonky, and turn it off so the rest of the electricity goes back to normal.
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