How Does Your Heart Work?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.3 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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How does your heart keep you alive? How does it pump blood? Why is blood so important? Why do children have heart surgeries? Why is a baby's heartbeat faster before it's born? Why does blood rush to your head when you're upside down? Why can you feel your heart in your head when you're lying still or under water? In this episode of But Why, we're going talking about a very special muscle! It keeps us alive and it has its own special rhythm: the heart. Pediatric oncologist Dr. Jane Crosson from Johns Hopkins Hospital answers questions about the heart.
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| 0:00.0 | But why? A podcast for curious kids is known for serious answers to silly questions sent |
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| 0:29.4 | at thebykids.org slash books. |
| 0:55.9 | This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio. On this show, we take |
| 1:02.4 | questions from interesting kids like you and we find answers. Would you like to see us live? |
| 1:09.1 | We are going to be part of the mega awesome super huge wicked fun podcast play date in |
| 1:14.7 | Boston at the end of April. We are going to be exploring the world of owls. I'll tell |
| 1:21.2 | you how to get tickets at the end of the episode. But I want to get right into today's topic. |
| 1:26.1 | We are going to be talking about a very special muscle. It keeps us alive and it has its own rhythm. |
| 1:33.3 | Today, we are answering questions about hearts. How do you hate to keep healing? How does |
| 1:42.2 | the heart pump blood? Why do children have heart surgery? We'll have answers to all those |
| 1:48.7 | questions and more. And we're going to get help from an expert. My name is Jane Crossen, |
| 1:54.1 | and I'm a doctor who takes care of kids who have heart problems. Why was that something that you |
| 1:59.0 | wanted to do? Kids have the most interesting hearts and they're the coolest anyway. Kids or kid |
| 2:07.8 | hearts? Both. The official words for someone who takes care of kids' hearts is a pediatric cardiologist. |
| 2:16.3 | Pediatric means a doctor who works with kids and cardiology is the study of the heart. |
| 2:22.0 | The kids who see doctor Crossen were often born with something unusual about their hearts that |
| 2:26.6 | needs correcting. And sometimes kids come to see her because their hearts either beat too fast |
| 2:31.6 | or too slow or with not quite the right rhythm. Now you can't talk about a heart without |
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