Can you feel your heartbeat? The heart is the most important muscle of every human since it pumps blood into the body. Once your heart stops beating, then you’re dead!

Because of poor diet, unhealthy lifestyle and other factors, more people are suffering from heart ailments. More and more people are dying because of heart attack or heart failure. According to survey, there are 1,400 people who die each day from a heart attack in the US (W.H. Howard, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., How to protect your heart from your doctor). To provide more information about the heart and how to help people with heart problems, St. Jude Medical created an online site where they have series of videos on heart-related issues.

It’s where I knew about ICD or implantable cardioverter defibrillator, a device which is implanted in a patient’s chest tomonitor and correct abnormal heart rhythms. How this device has helped heart failure patient Arthur Gorr can be viewed in this video link: ICD user talks about his life with ICD.

Please spread the word about the Heart Library. It may benefit him or her!