Hands-on learning about Pulmonary Hypertension
Hands-on learning about Pulmonary Hypertension
Stollery Children’s Hospital patient, Brendan, explores a 3D model of his heart to help understand his pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the arteries of his lungs. It’s a rare condition that causes pressure on the right side of the heart and forces the heart to work harder to pump blood through the lungs. It can happen to anyone at any age, even to young children.
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0.48 -> This one is full-sized, so that is
actually how big your heart is. If you
4.88 -> hold it up to yourself, you'll see
how much space it takes in your chest.
20.96 -> They can often go undiagnosed
on average of two years
24.16 -> and children often have very subtle symptoms such as shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.
29.04 -> They can have fatigue and they just
don't grow as well as other children.
40.08 -> He fainted when we were walking like three
42.32 -> minutes from the house, he said
'Daddy, I'm tired', and collapsed.
56.24 -> It's really an honour to actually be holding it in my hands and just looking at it. Looking
63.92 -> what anomalies there are and yeah, it's great that a doctor was wanting to do this for kids like me.
71.84 -> We tend to forget lists of things to watch out, for whereas having a visual and being able to
77.2 -> understand what's going on with your heart, that's really powerful and I think much more memorable.
83.04 -> INTERVIEWER: And were you surprised that it's so big?
BRENDAN: Oh, yeah. I was imagining it like the last few nights, like what it would be like in my chest, and like how much of my
97.12 -> chest it would take up and all that stuff but yeah, it's pretty crazy about how big it is.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKMBkG58dLE