8. Abnormalities of heart valves can be detected more accurately by auscultation than by electrocardiography. Why is this so?
9. In patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), the atria generate as many as 500 action potentials per minute, causing the atria to
spasm instead of contracting as a coordinated unit. A maze procedure involves making incisions in the atria and sewing them
back together, resulting in the formation of scar tissue in the atria. If the scar tissue is electrically inert, how might this procedure
prevent atrial fibrillation?