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Optimize Your Heart Rate

Depending on your age, level of conditioning, and your fitness goals, you should train in a particular heart-rate zone. Beginners should try to elevate their heart rate to 50%-60% of their maximum while intermediates and advanced should shoot for 70%-85% of their max. The higher your heart rate, the more calories you will burn and the more fit you can become.

To figure your maximum heart rate, simply subtract your age from 220. For example, if you're 30 years old, you would have a maximum heart rate of 190. To work at 70% of your maximum heart rate, you would shoot for a heart rate of approximately 133 beats per minute (0.7 x 190). You can also count bpm (beats per minute) in 10-second increments and then multiply by six.

 

Brotman Medical Center

3828 Delmas Terrace 
Culver City, CA 90232
310-836-7000
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Bloodless Medicine and Surgery

Transfusion-Free Medicine— Your choice is what matters most.

For those who feel uncomfortable sharing blood through transfusions or who hold personal or religious convictions against receiving blood, there is the option of transfusion-free or "bloodless medicine." "Bloodless" means medical or surgical treatment without the use of banked (stored) allogenic blood or major blood components. Blood loss often occurs during surgery. A bloodless program endeavors to minimize blood loss by utilizing special blood conservation methods.

A highly trained staff of physicians and nurses at Brotman Medical Center employs such methods so that patients may depend on their own blood supply. Among procedures now performed without the use of blood transfusions are: