Heart HQ: Christmas Heart Fun Facts
Heart HQ – Episode 13: Christmas! Fun Facts About the Heart
As we are fast approaching Christmas, we share some fun facts about the heart.
For example, did you know that more heart attacks occur on Christmas Day than any other day of the year? And that our heart beats around 100,000 times a day?
References
Further listening on Heart HQ
- Left Atrial Myxoma. HeartHQ
- Takotsubo and Perioperative Risk Assessment. HeartHQ
Further reading on LITFL
- Cadogan M. Sydney Ringer and Ringer’s lactate. LITFL
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MBBS (Hons) FRACP FCSANZ. Peter is a clinical and interventional cardiologist with various special interests including coronary angioplasty and stenting, endovascular procedures and structural heart interventions. He studied and trained in Queensland and completed a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Diagnosis in Boston, MA.
Peter returned home to become Director of Cardiology at Sunshine Coast Hospital, before becoming a founding partner and managing director of HeartHQ
BSc (Hons) MBBS FRACP FCSANZ. Stuart is an interventional cardiologist and structural heart specialist. He has a special interest in treating complex and previously untreatable coronary artery disease, and a passion for distal radial artery access for coronary angiography and stenting.
After completing his training in Brisbane and Perth with an interventional cardiology fellowship, he returned to paradise to take up cardiology consulting at various local hospitals and now is a director of HeartHQ.