Ventricular tachycardia and ablation

42:07fast heart rhythm that originates somewhere in your heart, usually in your lower chambers, okay, in the ventricles like the two that are on the bottom. And historically what doctors do when they want to treat this is they stick a catheter and they do a catheter ablation. So basically you thread a wire into the heart into the pulmonary arteries like the the arteries that are around the heart that are keeping the heart going right because the heart is a muscle so it needs blood. The blood comes from these veins and arteries. So you thread a a a wire through these arteries and you effectively try to look for where the arrhythmia is happening. Okay? And it's like it's like a needle

42:49in a haststack type of problem. You're trying to find this thing and then when you finally find it, you burn you ablate a tiny patch of that tissue and that hopefully stops the erratic signal, the erratic electrical signal. >> You're trying to disturb the system. >> Yeah. Yeah. You're you're trying to just like there's like some cells in there. There's like some like pacemaker neurons or like whatever neurons that are part of the contracting of the heart that are like doing weird things. You burn them off. Yeah. >> You kill them and then the rest of the heart kind of just like moves on. >> Okay. Um it but as I said, it's like finding a needle in a haststack, right? So this new procedure um it was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. We love to see it.

43:30>> Yes. Still waiting for our subscription. >> Yeah. I I still um had to [laughter] had to had to call in favors from my doctor friends to get access to this this um journal article. But at the end of the day, the procedure that usually takes hours cuz the doctors are literally proddding and looking for where this thing is happening. Now, they've brought it down to 30 minutes. >> And if the doctor misses the exact spot, this thing finds it. What they've done