{"id":138,"date":"2007-08-23T06:09:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T11:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/23\/diagram-of-cardiac-conduction-system\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T18:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:11:23","slug":"diagram-of-cardiac-conduction-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/23\/diagram-of-cardiac-conduction-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have A Diagram Of The Cardiac Conduction System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heart is an amazing muscle. For reasons described on this previous blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/anatomy-of-the-heart-ventricles-atria.php\">&#8220;The Anatomy And Heart Function<\/a>&#8220;, I am constantly marveling at all the complex elements that makes the heart operate. Interestingly enough&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Electricity has a lot to do with the actual starts and stops (aka contractions) in the cardiac conduction system. That said I thought you might like to see a diagram of cardiac conduction system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/cardiac-conduction-system.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram Of Cardiac Conduction System\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I could go on and do my best to scientifically explain the cardiac conduction system illustration above. However, it&#8217;s the Internet age. So, I&#8217;m going to let the American Heart Association do that for me. Here is a link to an article all about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanheart.org\/presenter.jhtml?identifier=68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Diagram of Cardiac Conduction System&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a very, very, very interesting article!<\/p>\n<p>Related Links<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/06\/22\/how-long-does-it-take-blood-to-circulate-through-your-vascular-system\/\">Trivia: How Long Does It Take for Blood to Flow Through Your Heart?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2025\/04\/15\/blood-flow\/\">How Does Blood Flow Through Your Heart Valves?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41792,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/41792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}