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HOW MUCH BLOOD IS PUMPED BY THE HEART EACH DAY?


Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about three billion times and pump about 800 million pints of blood or about one million barrels -that’s enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.The adult heart pumps about five quarts of blood each minute – approximately 2,000 gallons of blood each day – throughout the body. A typical athlete’s heart churns out up to eight gallons of blood per minute.
   

Blood Pumping Procedure


  • The deoxygenated blood is collected from all parts of the body by the right atrium.
  • This deoxygenated blood is pushed into the lungs by the right ventricle.
  • This takes place by the Pulmonary Artery.
  • The oxygenated blood is collected from the lungs by the left atrium.
  • The oxygenated blood is pumped to all body parts by the left ventricle.
  • This is carried out by the Aorta.
  • The filling up and emptying of the left side and the right side occurs in unison.
  • The same amount of blood is pumped by each chamber.
  • The left ventricular wall is three times thicker than the right ventricle.
  • More cardiac muscle is needed by the left ventricle to give a stronger push to the blood.
  • So the blood pressure is highest in the left ventricle.
  

 Resources for FOXvibe wow!! moment.
Topol EJ (ed). Cleveland Clinic Heart Book (2000) New York: Hyperion.Topol EJ (ed). Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (1998), Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven.
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