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Heart beats over 100,000 times per day. It pumps about 1.5 gallons of blood every minute. Over the course of a day, that adds up to over 2,000 gallons ....
Compared to a sport like football where we see much more traumatic injury. the problem is a lot of the injuries, even though there are few that we see in baseball are very serious. we see fractures. if the ball comes hurling at you whether you re a pitcher or a fielder, whether it hits your head, your chest, your arm, we see lots of fractures and head injuries, obviously we can see this type of a devastating heart injury where you then can t pump blood where it needs to get to until we can help you. arthel: i remember playing little league baseball, softball or the girls, and it seems like more and more these days the kids are bigger and bigger so they already have a lot of power to pack it. absolutely, absolutely, you know arthel: doctor i have to leave it there. i do appreciate your time and we ll talk to you next time. absolutely. thank you so much. jon: new questions about the president s healthcare overhaul, and whether it s hurting him in some key swing states. we ll get in ....
Look at the flyer, passed along with the former bush administration officials, saying no way that cheney could make the commitment if he knew would be having a heart transplant. he had the first in 1937 and in july of 2010, he had a left ventricular assist device to help pump blood through his body. and because that have division, he thought he might do without a heart transplant. the equipment that i wear was originally put together as a transition device to keep somebody going until they could get a transplant. now, it s gotten good enough that a lot of people live on it for years. and i haven t made a decision, what i m going to do yet. a year after a heart transplant, patients have an 88% survival rate. five years after, 75% and ten years after. ....
Cardiac transplant list for more than 20 months. he s had five heart attacks since 1978. in july 2010, vice president cheney had a ventricular assist device installed to help pump blood through his body. two years later he said he still hadn t decided if he wanted a heart transplant. one of the questions is whether or not i want to go for a heart transplant. the equipment that i wear was originally put together as a transition device to keep somebody going until they could get a transplant. now it s gotten good enough that a lot of people live on it for years. i haven t made a decision what i m going to do yet, but that s one of the options i ll have to look at down the road. former vice president cheney is obviously receiving world-class care, but on average there is an 88% survival rate for people who have gotten new hearts one year after the transplant. after five years it is a 75% patient survival rate. ....