Explain with the suitable diagram the conducting system of the human heart.

Hint:Your heart is a muscle. It's a little to the left of the centre of your chest, and it's around the size of your fist. There are a lot of muscles all over your body — in your arms, in your legs, in your back, and in your back. But the muscle of the heart is unique regardless of what it does. The heart is pumping blood across your body. The blood supplies the body with the oxygen and nutrients it requires. It also carries the waste away.

Complete answer:
 A network of specialized cardiac muscle cells responsible for the coordinated contraction of each cardiac cycle that activates and transmits electrical impulses cardiac is the cardiac conduction system. These special cells are capable of producing an action potential on their own (self-excitation) and transmitting it to other nearby cells (conduction), including cardiomyocytes.
It is possible to separate the sections of the heart conduction system into those that produce action potential (nodal tissue) and those that conduct them (fibre conducting). While all sections have the capacity to produce potential for action and therefore heart contractions, the primary impulse initiator and regulator in a healthy heart is the sinoatrial (SA) node. This feature makes the SA node the heart's biochemical pacemaker. The impulse originating from the SA node is sequentially obtained and performed by other sections and then transferred to myocardial cells. Myocardial cells contract synchronously upon activation by the action potential, resulting in a heartbeat. With the presence of intercalated discs and gap junctions, the transmission of electrical impulses and synchronous contraction of cardiomyocytes is facilitated.





Note:A rhythm abnormality or arrhythmia may result from any abnormality of the conducting pathway, whether congenital or acquired. An arrhythmia simply means that, as it should, the heart is not beating at the right time. These may take the form of beating the heart too rapidly (tachycardia) or too slowly (bradycardia). Abnormal sites that produce an electrical impulse (ectopic beats) may also be present.