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Cardiac Conduction System

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This chapter reviews the normal path of electrical conduction in the heart. In the structurally normal heart, the cardiac impulse is automatically generated by the pacemaker of the heart, the sinus node, and terminates in the ventricular myocardium. The anatomy and physiology of the electrical conduction in a normal heart are reviewed in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 700 Children’s Drive, Columbus, OH, 43205, USA

    Christopher Bugnitz MD

  2. Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University/Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 700 Children’s Drive, Columbus, OH, 43205, USA

    Jessica Bowman MD

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  1. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, CHICAGO, Illinois, USA

    Ra-id Abdulla

  2. Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, USA

    William Bonney

  3. Department of Cardiology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, COLUMBUS, Ohio, USA

    Omar Khalid

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, CHICAGO, Illinois, USA

    Sawsan Awad

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Bugnitz, C., Bowman, J. (2016). Cardiac Conduction System. In: Abdulla, Ri., Bonney, W., Khalid, O., Awad, S. (eds) Pediatric Electrocardiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26258-1_4

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