#CRT

Описание: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), also known as biventricular pacing, is an electrical method to coordinate and synchronize your heart’s contraction in an attempt to improve your symptoms of heart failure. Not everyone with heart failure is a candidate for CRT. Your physician will screen you based on tests including your ejection fraction and your 12-lead EKG.

A CRT system consists of two components— the pulse generator, or device, and thin, insulated wires called leads. A CRT device delivers tiny amounts of electrical energy to the heart through these leads. This helps restore the normal timing of the heartbeats, causing both ventricles to pump together more efficiently like a fist closing normally again.

A CRT-D is a special device for heart failure patients who are also at high risk for sudden cardiac death. While functioning like a normal pacemaker to treat slow heart rhythms, a CRT-D device also delivers small electrical impulses to the left and right ventricles to help them contract at the same time. This will help your heart pump more efficiently.

A CRT-D device can also treat dangerously fast heart rhythms (arrhythmias) that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest. If the device senses heartbeats that are dangerously fast, it delivers a shock to the heart. This shock (defibrillation) stops the abnormal rhythm. Without this life-saving therapy, the dangerously rapid rhythm could lead to death in just minutes.