According to Manoj Jain of Emory University, every year 200,000 US patients could be kept alive a little longer with an LVAD, at a cost of 200,000 per patient, or 40 billion. Is that a sensible use of resources in a country in which there are officially 39 million people below the poverty line, which for a family of four is 22,000?

And vital signs monitoring to prevent sudden cardiac death.

We can save the lives of people who are at high risk for a heart attack.

Please, mister...

(c) Sustaining global life support systems

He's taken the pen, and he's moving it towards the heart, and he's putting it on the heart, and then he feels the heartbeats from the real living patient.

We lose 700,000 people a year in the U.S. from sudden cardiac death.

And if we had a computer that could detect it, we could tell you you're having a heart attack so early it could save your life and prevent congestive heart failure.

Mr. Angelo. Heart attack last night.

The police reportedly maintained that he had died of a heart attack.

Well, the heart stent came from that little blow up box that you might have learned in elementary school.

Dr Pepper says it was heart failure.

The drug is already given for 12 months after a heart attack, reducing the risk of a stroke or another attack.

Using this drug for 12 months after a heart attack episode can help reduce recurrence of stroke or heart attack.

How long did this attack of Mrs. Stevenson's last?

I had no idea what was going on, but strangers intervened, kept my heart moving, beating.

Mr. Nichols was 65 years old and suffered from heart problems and diabetes.

Her mother died of it the day she was born.

Then a week later he was dead.

Well, there are other cancer tumors in the abdomen quite lethal, very lethal actually pancreas, liver, kidney.

Heart failure?

Heart diseases.

A heart attack?

Bum heart.

My heart will never stand it, Herr Doctor.

This is a heart stent developed by Zhong You at Oxford University.

We're doing this at the Cedars Sinai Heart Institute in the Women's Heart Center.

Hearts

Heart's fit.

In the heart?

His heart?

Heart failure...

The heart, Ramon.

Her heart...

All the cardiac doctors tried to shut him down.

The doctor says this trip... will stimulate the action of the heart.

My heart was three and a half sizes too big.

We have taken care of over 1,000 indigent patients that could have died, including four free pacemakers in patients with complete heart block. For those that understand cardiology, complete heart block means certain death.

474. According to estimates of the Cardiology Institute, there are about 1 million people suffering from coronary disease in Poland.

You have heart disease.

Cerebrovascular Other heart diseases

His health is poor.

That's one of the themes that Sylvia reminds us about understand this ocean of ours, this basic life support system, the dominant life support system on the planet.

People still believe in Voodoo. Heart disease, VSD, hole in the heart, tetralogies.

The person was killed by stabs in the heart, but they just deposited the knife by putting it through one of the eyeballs.