Dh no! TA Tim accidentally wandered into a surgical ward and was put in charge of doing another heart transplant! (When will he learn?) He correctly attached the right atrium to the Vena Cava, the Aorta to the left ventricle, and the pulmonary trunk and pulmonary veins to their respective chambers BUT he installed the heart backwards! Would blood still flow from the heart to the lungs? Are there any real world equivalents to a heart being a heart being backwards in the chest?
Dh no! TA Tim accidentally wandered into a surgical ward and was put in charge of doing another heart transplant! (When will he learn?) He correctly attached the right atrium to the Vena Cava, the Aorta to the left ventricle, and the pulmonary trunk and pulmonary veins to their respective chambers BUT he installed the heart backwards! Would blood still flow from the heart to the lungs? Are there any real world equivalents to a heart being a heart being backwards in the chest?
Phlebotomy Essentials
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![Oh no! TA Tim accidentally wandered into a surgical ward and was put in charge of doing another heart transplant! (When will he learn?)
He correctly attached the right atrium to the Vena Cava, the Aorta to the left ventricle, and the pulmonary trunk and pulmonary veins to their respective chambers BUT he installed the heart backwards!
Would blood still flow from the heart to the lungs? Are there any real world equivalents to a heart being backwards in the chest?](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F82f83ce0-74b6-479a-a153-f3e9cfeab78c%2F44787a28-a21a-4946-b66d-f543b71db16f%2F8w24dj_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Oh no! TA Tim accidentally wandered into a surgical ward and was put in charge of doing another heart transplant! (When will he learn?)
He correctly attached the right atrium to the Vena Cava, the Aorta to the left ventricle, and the pulmonary trunk and pulmonary veins to their respective chambers BUT he installed the heart backwards!
Would blood still flow from the heart to the lungs? Are there any real world equivalents to a heart being backwards in the chest?
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