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In this Article. The first phase of heart surgery recovery can last from 6 to 8 weeks. When you're released from the hospital, you'll get a set of instructions for post-surgery care. These will help you heal physically and feel better. Keep the cut your surgeon made clean and dry.
And the return of blood TO the heart has very little to do with the pressure from the heart. Contraction of muscles and one-way valves help return blood to the heart. Add: Ok, I've looked into it more because this is such an interesting question. Lets say your heart beats about 70 times per minute. That's 100800 beats per day. Your heart makes the entire blood in your body complete about 1,000 full cycles in a day. So that would mean that it takes about 100 beats to complete a full cycle. This makes sense. The American Heart Association recommends doing CPR at a rate of about 100 compressions per minute, which would mean one full cycle or blood circulating through the body.