{"668489":{"#nid":"668489","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe heart\u2019s electrical system keeps all its muscle cells beating in sync. A hard whack to the chest at the wrong moment, however, can set up unruly waves of abnormal electrical excitation that are potentially deadly. The resulting kind of arrhythmia may be what caused the football player\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.buffalobills.com\/team\/players-roster\/damar-hamlin\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDamar Hamlin\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the Buffalo Bills to collapse on the field after he took a powerful hit during a 2023 National Football League game. In this Quanta podcast,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/flavio-fenton\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFlavio Fenton\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E who studies the electrical dynamics of the heart, tells host Steve Strogatz about a new method under development for treating arrhythmias by stimulating the heart with mild, precisely timed shocks \u2014 or possibly even with light.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe heart\u2019s electrical system keeps all its muscle cells beating in sync. A hard whack to the chest at the wrong moment, however, can set up unruly waves of abnormal electrical excitation that are potentially deadly. The resulting kind of arrhythmia may be what caused the football player\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.buffalobills.com\/team\/players-roster\/damar-hamlin\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDamar Hamlin\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the Buffalo Bills to collapse on the field after he took a powerful hit during a 2023 National Football League game. In this Quanta podcast,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/flavio-fenton\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFlavio Fenton\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E who studies the electrical dynamics of the heart, tells host Steve Strogatz about a new method under development for treating arrhythmias by stimulating the heart with mild, precisely timed shocks \u2014 or possibly even with light.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-07-17 14:29:57","changed_gmt":"2023-07-17 14:29:57","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Quanta Magazine ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/can-math-and-physics-save-an-arrhythmic-heart-20230712\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"112191","name":"Flavio Fenton"},{"id":"186974","name":"arrhythmias"},{"id":"2583","name":"heart"},{"id":"186985","name":"cardiac electrical signals"}],"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":""}}}