eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Cool Basics on Heart Disease
Explains the different types of heart disease, their causes, how they are diagnosed, heart surgery treatments, and ways to prevent heart disease.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Heart Valves Explained
Learn about the role of heart valves in how your heart functions and what happens when one is defective.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute Online: The Structure of the Heart
Description of the structure of the heart including the valves.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Habits of the Heart
A guide to the heart, lungs, and circulatory system, and surgical procedures of the heart. Includes many digital images. Lesson plans with pictures and video instructions are very helpful.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Heart Bypass Surgery
From MedlinePlus, a video tutorial featuring information on heart bypass surgery with accompanying text.
WebMD
Medicine Net: Heart Attack
This site from MedicineNet.com provides great information on a myocardial infarction, otherwise known as a heart attack. Includes a definition and description, along with information on causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Heart to Heart
Follow the story of James Reynolds as he receives a heart transplant. This site gives a fairly graphic, detailed account of the surgery involved.
Other
Cardiothoracic Surgery of Savannah: Heart Murmurs
Information about heart murmurs and other problems with the heart valves. Gives good illustrations and audio examples of different kinds of heart murmurs.
PBS
Pbs: Cut to the Heart
Come and learn more about the heart. This fascinating organ will leave you breathless after you visit this informative resource.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association Heart Transplants
"When does a person need a transplant? How many people need and receive transplants?" Learn the answers to these question when you use this site.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Heart Attack
This resource presents brief information defining a heart attack. The article also contains many links to related topics and publications in English and Spanish.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: John Gibbon: Heart Lung Machine
This site provides a very brief bio on Dr. John Gibbon, inventor of the heart-lung machine that he used to "complete the first open-heart operation." Learn about the invention's impact on the medical world.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Affairs of the Heart: Mirrored Movements
Model endoscopic surgery by constructing and operating a tool that extends a person's grasping ability, explore dexterity skills using a basic electric circuit and then design and create an improved remote tool.
University of Washington
University of Washington: After Your Heart Attack
This site offers information on how to recognize and prevent a heart attack.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
The article answers questions about coronary artery bypass surgery.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Heart Transplantation
One-page overview on heart transplants with useful information on the reasons for needing one and the process one goes through to get one.
Other
Transplant Q/a
Article with questions and answers relating to heart transplants. Great info from who is eligible, what is an average cost, what drugs are related and much more.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:scientific American: Affairs of the Heart: Exploring Vessel Physics
Explore the relationship between pressure and vessel diameter and create a model that represents how elevated blood pressure may affect weakened vessels. Design and critique a repair device.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Michael E. De Bakey, m.d.
Learn about the influential Dr. Michael E. DeBakey known as the "Father of Modern Cardiovascular Surgery". Read about his background and myriad of achievements, listen to an interview, and view a gallery of pictures.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Videos Y Multimedia
Online presentations on more than 150 health topics, diseases, and conditions, from acne to viruses. Each plays as a slide presentation, with sound, that you can control or set to autoplay. Time varies from 5-20 minutes. Available in...
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Aneurysm Repair
One-page article describing what is an aneurysm and how is it repaired.