- The pediatrician determines a heart noise with Paula. The film accompanies Paula and her mother to the necessary cardiologic investigations, a heart catheter investigation as well as to her heart surgery and the following stay in the clinic up to their dismissal. Structure and disease of the heart as well as all cardiologic investigations like e.g. ECG, echo-cardiogram and heart catheter are explained. Also the operation and the stay on the intensive care unit are represented sympathetically.—RSaVLSG
- Paula (Lilly Boxheimer) has a heart defect, so she has to endure numerous procedures for making her heart intact. There are three parts:
1. "Der Herzfehler" (The heart disease)
First she is examined with measuring and weighing. Therefore she has to undress, because she doesn't weigh too heavy.
Then the cardiologic tests begins. (Still without shirt)
* The pediatrician Frau Berger (Gabriele Auenson-Borgelt) auscultates her heart with a stethoscope, and measures her blood pressure.
* The next investigation is the electrocardiogram: For that the pediatrician puts her one string (one kind of electrodes) on every arm and every leg and six patches (another kind of electrodes) on her chest. These electrodes are connected on wires which lead to the EKG machine. Paula's heart impulses are recorded as waves on a moving paper coming out off the EKG machine. For the diagnosis she has to remain lying five minutes calm. That's very hard for her, but with supporting by Jonathan (Jan Felix Schuhmann) she feels better.
* For the next investigation (the ultrasonography/echo-cardiogram), Paula, Paula's mother (Henriette Boxheimer) and the pediatrician go to another room. There Paula has take off her shirt again. Also here the pediatrician puts three patches on Paula's chest; further she greases some sonography ointment on Paula's chest. With a hand-instrument Paula's heart sounds are divert to the echo machine and transformed to an image on the echo machine's screen.
2. "Die Katheteruntersuchung" (The catheter investigation)
For this special investigation Paula has to come again to the hospital. When Paula lies on the surgery table, the surgeons carry out the catheter investigation: A x-ray makes video pictures while they put the catheter in Paula's body.
3. "Die Herz-OP" (The heart surgery)
Finally Paula is operated. She is connected on the cardiopulmonary bypass, therefore both the surgeons can relieved Paula's heart disease and Paula survives.
After the surgery Paula's heart works normally. Then Paula can play with Jonathan like each other healthy girl, too.
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