{"661174":{"#nid":"661174","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Researchers map rotating spiral waves in live human hearts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EElectrical signals tell the heart to contract, but when the signals form spiral waves, they can lead to dangerous cardiac events like tachycardia and fibrillation. Researchers at Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;and clinicians at Emory University School of Medicine are bringing a new understanding to these complicated conditions with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.heartrhythmjournal.com\/article\/S1547-5271(22)02176-2\/fulltext\u0022\u003Efirst high-resolution visualizations\u003C\/a\u003E of stable spiral waves in human ventricles. The Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;researchers are \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/flavio-fenton\u0022\u003EFlavio Fenton,\u003C\/a\u003E professor, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/ilija-uzelac\u0022\u003EIIija Uzelac\u003C\/a\u003E, research scientist.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-09-13 19:54:58","changed_gmt":"2022-09-13 19:54:58","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/scienmag.com\/researchers-map-rotating-spiral-waves-in-live-human-hearts\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-09-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-09-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"112191","name":"Flavio Fenton"},{"id":"191291","name":"IIija Uzelac"},{"id":"174314","name":"spiral waves"},{"id":"5221","name":"cardiac"},{"id":"2583","name":"heart"},{"id":"191292","name":"ventricles"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}