The impulses leap across synapse-like connections between the cells called gap junctions, and continue down the conduction system until they reach the atrioventricular node, or AV node, located just above the tricuspid valve.
Now, when the signal hits the AV node, it actually gets delayed for like, a tenth of a second — so the atria can finish contracting before the ventricles contract.
This treatment essentially uses cautery to cut and destroy the pathway, essentially boarding off the secret back door, leaving behind only one connection between the atria and the ventricles, the AV node.
It's then delayed just slightly as it goes through the atrioventricular or AV node, before it passes through the Bundle of His and to the Purkinje fibers of the left and right ventricles, causing them to contract as well.