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Home › Defibrillators and pacemakers might soon use light instead of electricity to restart your heart

 

Defibrillators and pacemakers might soon use light instead of electricity to restart your heart

2013-09-26 21:17:58| Extremetech

Closed-chest electric defibrillators can be effective at restoring normal heart rhythm, but they come at a price -- even with fine-tuned pulse shapes and sequences they can still be very painful. Researchers have been looking to scrap these devices altogether by switching to a softer, smarter technology that uses light to activate responsive stem cells engrafted to the heart.

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