If a heart beats too slowly, the device will use electrical signals to help set a normal rate.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

If they're having a coronary artery bypass or they're having a heart transplant, then there's some period at which their normal heart - their heart is stopped and this machine assumes the functions of their heart.

病人在做冠状动脉搭桥手术,或者心脏移植手术时,病人自己的心脏,会停跳一段时间,而这台设备就能代替心脏工作

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

We'll talk about how your normal valves function inside your heart and how your heart couldn't work in the way that it did if it didn't have valves that were doing a very complex operation many many times a day.

我们会讨论,正常的瓣膜在心脏中如何工作,以及没有这个,每天不停完成很多复杂任务的心脏瓣膜,心脏为什么,就不能正常工作了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If a heart beats too slowly, the pacemaker will use electrical signals to help set a normal rate.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

"While our study shows that this might not be sufficient to maintain normal weight, it clearly is sufficient to reduce the risk of developing many chronic diseases, including heart disease, certain types of cancer, type two diabetes."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30