See the shape of a heart by Barbora Misakova

Heart – muscular organ responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels. It’s a main or better say one of the most important suppliers of oxygen for our body. This extra ordinary organ – not only by its functions but also by its shape and importance in general was the object of interest of healers, doctors and all people around the world. Heart was mystical part of our body, like a little living creature in our chest responsible for the fact that we are living. This was a reason why also philosophers, poets and artists were so magically captivated by it. Heart was like some kind of magical instrument – difficult to understand it clearly, but too outstanding just to let it be. As years were passing by people knew more and more about this extraordinary organ, getting closer to its essence. Also cardiology – the branch of internal medicine dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels was closer to the answer on the most important questions such as: How does our heart works? How to protect it and heal this precious organ?

Modern surgery these days knows the answers and it is still getting closer to full understanding of heart. The three doctors from the Heart Hospital in London were not satisfied with the 2-dimensional heart model – it was not able to provide important information anymore. It was quite complicated to teach about three-dimensional object from its only two-dimensional model. So they decided to create better model of heart, which could remove all remaining doubts in cardiology. Today we have model which resemble real heart. Four chambers beating in the same asymmetrical rhythm! British doctors made with no doubt one of the most useful models in human surgery. The model of heart will be helpful in teaching students and training them. Looking and working with a model, which has the same parameters as the real heart will help them to learn how to perform for example complicated ultrasound scan of the heart. The model will be more than handy also during the surgeries – it will enable to provide better care of patients. This model was based on surgical data and also on knowledge of surgeons themselves who are “fixing” hearts everyday. Although it can sounds weird and like some kind of sci-fi story we are closer to the truth again. To the truth of life!


related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081023/tc_nm/us_heart_davinci;_ylt=Ak71rGtUcrW2wt6ORRS6Lles0NUE

by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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