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<\/p>\nThe patients and family members in our community never cease to amaze me.<\/p>\n
This time, John Berner, did something quite amazing.\u00a0 To help educate himself, his wife (a heart valve patient), and our community, John took it upon himself to create a diagram that answers the very important question, “How does blood flow through your heart valves and your body?”<\/p>\n
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Here is what John wrote to me in an email that accompanied the diagram above:<\/p>\n
Greeting Adam, I am a retired (mostly) Registered Professional Engineer (PE-Ret). As such, I still perform limited expert or forensic services for various legal offices, plus manufacturing and insurance organizations \u2013 but only if they\u2019re of interest to me. As result of my wife\u2019s recent heart issue, I decided I had to understand how the human heart functions. Also, one of the problems with heart issues is that most people don\u2019t understand how the human heart and its four valves function. Many times, this amounts to people not even knowing enough about the subject to ask meaningful questions. This included me.<\/p>\n
Therefore, I decided to see if I couldn\u2019t come up with a diagram to help me more clearly understand the heart\u2019s function. The above attachment is the result of this effort. This is one mechanical-industrial engineer\u2019s view of the human heart.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m for helping every possible person to understand the, basically simple, concepts of this extremely well-designed pump and system.<\/p>\n
Best regards,<\/p>\n
John M. Berner
\nProfessional Engineer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-surgery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40564,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917\/revisions\/40564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}