Your Heart and its Arteries

The Heart

The heart lies in the center and more towards the left of the chest in an area called the mediastinum. As the heart is tilted slightly to the left you feel the beat of your heart on the left side at the apex. Here the beat is supposed to be the strongest.

The heart is about the size of a fist and weighs less than a pound. It is pinkish grey in color and is mainly made up of muscle called myocardium. It is hollow and divided into a left and a right side. Each side has two chambers, the one above is known as the atrium and the one below, ventricle.

                The heart pumps life-sustaining blood through the body. The right side of the heart supplies blood to the lungs, while the left, the stronger side, supplies blood to the rest of the body. Oxygen and glucose are supplied to the body. Carbon dioxide and waste gases collected in the blood are passed into the right atrium and via the right ventricle and pulmonary artery, are pumped out through the lungs. Blood from the lungs takes in oxygen which is breathed in by respiration. This blood goes to the left atrium and then to the left ventricle where it is pumped out from aorta to the rest of the body. 

How much do you know about Heart?

Your Heart: How Much Do you Know about it?

Answer the following questions to find out how much you know about your heart and its functioning.

1.       Where does the heart normally lie?

a.       On the right side of the chest

b.      More to the left

c.       In the centre of the chest

2.       Where do we experience the heart beat to be the strongest?

a.       In the centre of the heart

b.      A little on the left side

c.       A little on the right side of the chest

3.       The heart is supplied blood through arteries known as

a.       Capillaries

b.      Coronaries

c.        Carotids

4.       The chest is often examined by the doctors through an instrument called

a.       Sphygmomanometer

b.      Stethoscope

c.       Angioscope

5.       The procedure to study the blood vessels of the hart is –

a.       Arteriography

b.      Angiography

c.       Venography

The more times you answer (b), the more you are correct and seem to know about your heart.

Pain

Cardiac	Non-cardiac
Tightness	Sharp
Pressure	Knife-like
Weight	Stabbing
Constriction	Like a stitch
Ache	Like a needle
Dull	Pricking feeling
Squeezing feeling	Shooting
Soreness	Reproduced by pressure or position
Crushing	Can walk around with it
Like a band Breathless	Continuous

Important Telephone Number in Bangladesh

Important Telephone Number

Name of Hospital and Clinic in Bangladesh.

Name of Hospital and Clinic	Phone Number
Dhaka Medical Hospital	8626812, 8626823
B S M M U	8612550, 8614545
Salimulla Medical College Hospital	7310061, 7319002
PG Hospital	9114075, 9144910
Shishu Hospital	9119119, 8116061
Ajimpur Ma o shishu Hospital	8624827, 8624980
Dental College	9002035
Diabetic Research Hospital (Bardem)	9661551, 8616641
Cancer Hospital	8826561-65
Kolara Research Hospital	8811751
Holy Family Hospital	8311721-25
Bangladesh Medical Hospital	8115843, 9118202
Islamiya Eye Hospital	9119315, 8112856
Islamiya Bank Hospital	8317090, 9336421
Anjuman-e-mufidul Hospital	7410786, 9336611
Samorita Hospital	9131901-5
Manoyara Hospital	8319802, 8318135
Layance Eye Hospital	9129127
Lab-aid Ltd.	8610793-8
South Asia Hospital	8616565
Central Hospital	9660015-9
Red Crescent Blood Bank	9116563
National Medical Hospital	7117300, 7113469
TB Hospital	8816268
New Alraji Hospital	8611213, 8628820
Medinova Medical	8620353
Shikdar Medical College and Hospital	8115951, 8113313
Salbho Medical Centre	9351404
Uttara Heart Centre Pvt. Ltd.	9118138
National Heart Foundation Hospital	8014914
Heart Hospital	9801874, 9803302
The Eye Clinic	9333238
Comfort Daya: Center	8616045
Dental Medical Center	8617141-3
Dhanmondhi Clinic Pvt. Ltd.	8616014, 8617502
Ibna Sina	8119513
Metropolitan Medical Center	8824155
Mukti Clinic	8827147, 8814562
Nibadita Nursing Home	9126170, 8111281
Ragh Nikatan	9333730
Udayan Pali Clinic	9351100
Green View Clinic	8611031-3
Rasmano Clinic	8317819

Important Phone Number in Bangladesh.

Important Phone Number in Bangladesh.

This Phone Number of Blood Bank.

This Numbers safe you and your family. Please, save this phone number to need any time.

Name of Blood Bank	Phone Number
Dhaka Medical (Sandhani)	9668690, 8616744
Sandhani Center	8621658
Sandhani	9665140
Sandhani (SMCE)	7310061,7319022
Sandhani International Eye Bank	8614040
Downer Life safe blood Bank	7300048
Lab Care Blood Bank	8627885
Modifier Blood Bank	9662762
Muckti Blood Bank	8624249
Red Crescent Center	9116563, 8121497
Quantum	9351969, 8322987
Salimulla Medical College	7319123
Bardem Hospital	9661551-60, 8616641
Banghabadhu Medical Hospital	9661051-65
Mirpur Dental College	9011887
C, M, H Dhaka.	9871469, 9870011