broken heart syndrome treatment
- [voiceover] so your heart pumps blood essentially to two places and the first place is your body. so you have your oxygenatedblood on the left side and we gotta remember that the lefts and the rights are switched because we're looking at theanatomical view of the heart. so it pumps it out to your body and your body gets that oxygen. your body uses it upand then circulates it back into the right side where this time it'spumped out to the lungs and gets re-oxygenatedand gets that oxygen back and then it's circulatedback into the left side. and the amount of blood at any time pumped to your body is sortof based on this demand that your body has for blood. you can kind of think ofit like you have this gage that says, "hey, i need this much blood "to sustain this much activity." and this can change, so if you start working out or something, your demands might go up and your heart can accommodate for that and start pumping more blood to that body to meet th