Bizarre Facts
Name That Part
Name That Function
Guiness Book of World Records
Electrical System
100
Number of gallons of blood your heart pumps in a day.
What is 2,000 gallons?
100
The tiny, branching tubes (vessels) in between the arteries and veins where oxygen is passed to cells that need it.
What are capillaries?
100
These prevent the backward flow of blood.
The valves.
100
The lowest resting heart rate ever recorded.
What is 27 beats per minute (bmp)?
56 year-old Martin Brady from the U.K. took the title from five-time Tour De France winner, Miguel Indurian, (whose resting pulse was 28bpm).
100
This natural "pacemaker" starts the electrical impulse in the heart.
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
200
The number of miles of blood vessels you have in your body (arteries + veins + capillaries).
a) 60,000 miles
b) 2,000 miles
c) 10 miles
What is about 60,000 miles?
200
The name of the largest artery of the body, located at the top of the heart that sends oxygen-rich blood to the entire body.
What is the aorta?
200
This upper chamber receives oxygen-poor blood from the body.
What is the right atrium?
200
The longest documented time of cardiac arrest with a full recovery.
What is 8 hours and 40 minutes?
Climbing in the Italian Dolomites, 31-year-old "Roberto" was caught in a thunderstorm and experienced hypothermic cardiac arrest. Resuscitation included manual CPR, electrical defibrillation, life-support & warming until his cardiac rhythm went from asystole to ventricular fibrillation. One last electrical shock returned the heart to a normal sinus rhythm.
200
This node delays the impulse to allow the atria to contract before the ventricles.
What is the atrioventricular (AV) node?
300
The number of times the heart beats in a day.
What is 100,000 times?
300
The name of this vein:
What is the inferior vena cava.
300
This lower chamber pumps oxygen-rich blood to the body.
What is the left ventricle?
300
Longest number of years a patient has lived with a heart transplant.
What is 40 years?
57 year-old, Bert Yansen, from Denmark was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy at 17 and underwent transplant surgery in 1984.
300
These fibers rapidly carry the electrial signal through the ventricles.
What are Purkinje fibers?
400
Mammal with the largest heart.
What is the blue whale?
400
The name of this valve:
What is the tricuspid valve?
400
These blood vessels brings oxygen-rich blood back from the lungs to the heart.
What are the pulmonary veins?
400
The highest number of coronary stent implants in one patient.
What is 34 stents?
Emil Lohen from the U.S. had a total of 34 coronary stents implanted in just 6 years (from 2000-2006).
400
The pathway between the AV node and the ventricles is called this.
What is the bundle of His?
500
An organ you have that is the size of your own fist.
What is my heart?
500
The name of this valve:
What is the aortic valve?
500
This blood vessel carries oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
500
Number of BigMac burgers eaten in a lifetime:
a) 858; b) ~5,000; c) ~21,000; d) >32,000
d) What is >32,000?
Donald Gorske of Wisconsin has been eating between 1 and 9 BigMac's a day for over 50 years. He usually eats 2 a day.
500
When the heart muscle resets after contraction, this is happening.
What is repolarization?
