The heart is the size of a fist and weighs 0.45kg - the equivalent of about half a bag ofsugar. In an adult of average fitness, it beats around 70 times a minute (at rest) and 100,000 times a day.

Acute myocardial infarction-related cardiogenic shock (AMI-CS) is a severe, life-threatening condition characterised by inadequate tissue perfusion due to the heart’s inability to pump blood ...