Above is another video about Coronary Bypass Surgery, this time from BUPA. It is quite clear that there are several helpful visual guides to this surgery, but none are available from the NHS, which is where my visual leaflet will be aimed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b1FQJcRE1k#t=18

Above is a link to a Youtube video about Coronary Bypass Surgery made by the British Heart Foundation. This is the only piece of media I have found so far (already existing) that could help patients who don't speak english as a first language, struggle to read, or understand things in a more visual way.

I have researched patient information leaflets for Private patients and they are usually given the same information leaflets as patients on the NHS. Below is an NHS leaflet on Mitral Valve Surgery which is given to private patients:

Here is another example of an NHS patient information leaflet, this time on Cardiology Clinics in the community. Once again there are no images or diagrams and some of the words are difficult to understand.

I have also drawn the same heart, mid-dissection, again in pencil for additional detail.

I have drawn a heart based on the dissections of hearts I have done. I have chosen to draw it in pencil rather than my pen 'dot' style in order to look at the detail more closely.

I bought a new book which depicts how human anatomy has been illustrated over time, which I am hoping will be very useful to my research.