I demanded, feeling my heartbeat slow to normal.
By then a monitor had been set up showing a slow but otherwise normal heartbeat.
"Unless, of course, you refer to the normal heartbeat of a human child."
A normal heartbeat is established by a regular pattern of faint electrical signals in the heart's nerve system.
If he could just regain a normal heartbeat, he might be able to sleep.
Bradycardia is a slower than normal heartbeat around 40-60 beats per minute.
Such machines are used to restore a normal heartbeat of a patient whose heart is beating erratically.
A normal resting heartbeat is around 70-80 beats a minute.
He also underwent an electrical procedure to help stimulate a normal heartbeat.
Wells said doctors stopped his heart for two minutes, then shocked it to restore a normal heartbeat.