How does heart transplant surgery work? | Roni Shanoada

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Your heart beats more than 100,000 times a day. In one minute, it pumps over five liters of blood throughout your body. But unlike skin and bones, the heart has a limited ability to repair itself. So if it’s ever severely damaged, there's often only one medical solution: replacing it. Roni Shanoada explores how this complex and intricate procedure works. This TED-Ed lesson was directed by Alexia Roider and Zedem Media and narrated by Addison Anderson. After the talk, Shoshana demystifies what happens if you opt to be an organ donor.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	This is the Ted Health Podcast. I'm Dr. Shoshana Ungerlater.
0:12.7	On today's show, we'll go into an operating room. Rather than a live talk, this is a
0:17.8	lesson from Ted Ed, Ted's education platform. We'll walk through every intricate beat of
0:24.4	a heart transplant. It's astonishing how this procedure has extended the lives of so
0:29.4	many patients. And after, I'll dive into the process of organ donation. I'll tell you
0:35.4	what happens after you opt in as a donor, which in the U.S. could mean getting that little
0:40.3	sticker on your driver's license. It's just one of the number of ways to become a registered
0:45.1	organ donor. So stick around.
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1:32.8	Your heart beats more than 100,000 times a day. In just a minute, it pumps over five
1:39.4	liters of blood throughout your body. But unlike skin and bones, the heart has a limited
1:45.8	ability to repair itself. So if this organ is severely damaged, there's often only one
1:51.8	medical solution, replacing it. Today, nearly 3,500 heart transplants are performed each
1:59.9	year in a complex and intricate procedure with no room for error. The process begins by
2:07.2	testing potential recipients to ensure they're healthy enough for this demanding operation.
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