Live...from the Heart
The interactive videoconference between your class or classroom and the operating room.
Your Heart
Your heart will beat every second of your life.
About the size of a fist, the heart muscle continually circulates blood throughout your body. An average person's heart will beat over 2.5 billion times in a lifetime. But what actually goes on inside the heart?
What can go wrong
Sometimes things can go wrong with a person's heart. Learn more in the following sections about what you can do to lower your chances of developing coronary artery disease, a progressive clogging of the arteries that feed the heart. (To learn more about other heart conditions, go to heartcenteronline.com.)
- See it "heart" at work.
- Follow the path of blood through the heart.
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