How Does Blood Flow Through Your Heart Valves & Your Body?

The sufferers and members of the family in our group by no means stop to amaze me.

This time, John Berner, did one thing fairly wonderful.  To assist educate himself, his spouse (a coronary heart valve affected person), and our group, John took it upon himself to create a diagram that solutions the crucial query, “How does blood circulate by your coronary heart valves and your physique?”

In John’s Phrases…

Here’s what John wrote to me in an e mail that accompanied the diagram above:

Greeting Adam, I’m a retired (principally) Registered Skilled Engineer (PE-Ret). As such, I nonetheless carry out restricted skilled or forensic providers for numerous authorized workplaces, plus manufacturing and insurance coverage organizations – however provided that they’re of curiosity to me. As results of my spouse’s latest coronary heart situation, I made a decision I needed to perceive how the human coronary heart capabilities. Additionally, one of many issues with coronary heart points is that most individuals don’t perceive how the human coronary heart and its 4 valves operate. Many occasions, this quantities to individuals not even realizing sufficient concerning the topic to ask significant questions. This included me.

Due to this fact, I made a decision to see if I couldn’t give you a diagram to assist me extra clearly perceive the guts’s operate. The above attachment is the results of this effort. That is one mechanical-industrial engineer’s view of the human coronary heart.

I’m for serving to each attainable individual to grasp the, principally easy, ideas of this extraordinarily well-designed pump and system.

Greatest regards,

John M. Berner
Skilled Engineer