Next to the brain, the heart is the most vital organ in the human body. The brain makes the heart function, but without a heart nothing else functions. In fact, in the absence of brain function, a human body can be kept alive for a surprising length of time as long as the heart can be made to beat.
The heart pumps blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels for a daily volume of 2,000 gallons of blood. That's enough to fill a 10 x 20-foot pool 10 feet deep, and the heart does this by beating 100,000 times a day, circulating blood throughout the body in a mere 20 seconds from an organ not much larger than a grapefruit.
This is why a healthy heart is so important, and why anatomical models are so essential to doctors, cardiac surgeons, medical …show more content…
To aid in patient education, models of both normal and diseased hearts give cardiac surgeons an edge to combat the normal fears of individuals facing heart surgery. Doctors and surgeons can choose from normal-size or enlarged heart models, with or without coronary bypass definition, which show coronary and venal bypasses, including the ramus circumflexus of the left coronary artery, all displayed in accurate, intense color. The classic, two-part model comes on a stand, and the front heart wall is detachable to show the interior functioning.
The paradigm in patient education is the giant, hands-on, unbreakable heart model, three times the size of a normal, adult heart with three hinged doors which open to reveal the four chambers and their associated valves. On the back, this model also displays an anatomically correct portion of the trachea and esophagus, and the heart can either rotate on its base or be removed for demonstration purposes and comes with a study guide describing the 39 key features of the
The heart pumps blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels for a daily volume of 2,000 gallons of blood. That's enough to fill a 10 x 20-foot pool 10 feet deep, and the heart does this by beating 100,000 times a day, circulating blood throughout the body in a mere 20 seconds from an organ not much larger than a grapefruit.
This is why a healthy heart is so important, and why anatomical models are so essential to doctors, cardiac surgeons, medical …show more content…
To aid in patient education, models of both normal and diseased hearts give cardiac surgeons an edge to combat the normal fears of individuals facing heart surgery. Doctors and surgeons can choose from normal-size or enlarged heart models, with or without coronary bypass definition, which show coronary and venal bypasses, including the ramus circumflexus of the left coronary artery, all displayed in accurate, intense color. The classic, two-part model comes on a stand, and the front heart wall is detachable to show the interior functioning.
The paradigm in patient education is the giant, hands-on, unbreakable heart model, three times the size of a normal, adult heart with three hinged doors which open to reveal the four chambers and their associated valves. On the back, this model also displays an anatomically correct portion of the trachea and esophagus, and the heart can either rotate on its base or be removed for demonstration purposes and comes with a study guide describing the 39 key features of the