To aid in patient education, models of both normal and diseased hearts give cardiac surgeons an edge to combat the normal fears of individuals facing heart surgery. Doctors and surgeons can choose from normal-size or enlarged heart models, with or without coronary bypass definition, which show coronary and venal bypasses, including the ramus circumflexus of the left coronary artery, all displayed in accurate, intense color. The classic, two-part model comes on a stand, and the front heart wall is detachable to show the interior functioning.
The paradigm in patient education is the giant, hands-on, unbreakable heart model, three times the size of a normal, adult heart with three hinged doors which open to reveal the four chambers and their associated valves.…