Product Description

Emmy Award Winning

The heart is the engine of human life. Beating almost 100,000 times a day, more than 36 million times each year, it endures abuse and trauma with extraordinary resilience. Yet, as more nations become prosperous and lifestyles change, heart disease has become the world's number one killer of men and women alike. In America alone, approximately 3,000 people each day die from cardiovascular disease.

Each of the three programs that make up, THE MYSTERIOUS HUMAN HEART focuses on a different aspect of what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we're on the verge of learning about the heart. This material is presented through the real-life dramas of people who suddenly learn that a normal, functioning heart is not something that can be taken for granted.

Programs in this series:
Program 1: Endlessly Beating
Program 2: The Spark of Life
Program 3: The Silent Killer

Features :
Filmed in High Definition
Closed Captioned for the Hearing Impaired
Spanish Subtitles

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101782 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-29
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Formats: Box set, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 180 minutes

Review
The series, thanks to those who let their stories be told and filmed, shatters any complacency you might have developed about your heart after hearing for so long about successful transplants and seeing heart-surgery survivors like David Letterman and Bill Clinton resume high-profile --The New York Times

Review
Filmed in high-definition and originally broadcast on PBS, filmmaker David Grubin's informative three-part series combines interviews with medical experts and surgeons, vivid computer-generated images of the heart's structure and function, and real-life stories of everyday people facing the challenges of life-threatening heart conditions. "Endlessly Beating" looks at the heart as a muscular pump -- beating more than 100,000 times a day, and remaining remarkably efficient under nominal conditions. But when the heart fails (as it does in three case studies examined here), artificial hearts or heart transplants are required, both of which are explored in detail. The Spark of Life" focuses on the electrical mechanisms that keep the heart beating, detailing what occurs when the heart's normal rhythms are disrupted or shutdown. A wide range of treatments are profiled (with particular emphasis on portable and implantable defibrillators), as patients from New York to Brazil find their lives extended to advancing technology. The Silent Killer zeroes in on atherosclerosis, the silent blockage of coronary arties that is the leading cause of cardiac arrest, looking at risk factors (and prevention) and the prospects for long term survival of those with heart disease. A valuable primer on an important subject, this is highly recommended --Video Librarian