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If a person is unconscious how can you tell if there heart still beating?
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What does it mean when you are still but your heart is still beating?
It means that the patient is in a coma or unconscious. If the heart is not beating then the person might have past away. :(
What happens if you do CPR and the heart is still beating?
Before 2000 it was speculated that if a Heart was still beating and you administered CPR you could put the heart out of it's natural rhythm and cause it to stop. However since 2000 it is advised that if someone is unconscious and not breathing CPR should be administered regardless of if the heart is beating or not. The Chest Compressions in the Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation may put strain on the heart but its natural sinus Rhythm shouldn't be interrupted.
Can a dead persons heart be used again?
Once the heart muscle stops beating, it starts to decompose very quickly. A person can be clinically dead, but still have a beating heart. Sometimes hearts are kept beating after death to sae them for transplant surgeries.
What Shakespeare play is this quote from 'be still my beating heart'?
The earliest citation of the full 'be still, my beating heart' comes from William Mountfort's Zelmane, 1705: "Ha! hold my Brain; be still my beating Heart."
Which is more important to the function of the human body the brain or the heart?
Both the brain and the heart are important to the function of the human body. If the brain is dead but the heart is still beating, the person is alive. However, if the heart stops, it means the person is dead. Therefore, the heart is more important.
Why do doctors consider a person dead when the brain is not working but the heart is still beating?
This is because being dead is defined as stoppage in the functioning of brain and it is not having any relation with the functioning of heart. If the heart stops beating then there is no supply of oxygen rich blood to the brain and hence the brain dies and henceforth the person is declared dead.
Will you still get blood squirt if a throat is slit after the heart has stopped beating?
No. Once the heart stops beating, blood pressure drops rapidly to zero.
Severe chest injury and they are unconscious do you begin compressions?
Compressions are done to cause the blood to circulate when the heart is not beating. So first, check for a pulse. If there is no pulse, then yes, you do CPR even in the case of a severe chest injury, since the person will certainly die (and indeed, is already clinically dead) without this treatment. If you have a defibrillator, that might get the heart to start beating again, but you may still have to use CPR. Of course, for such a terribly injured person, you must get real medical help as soon as possible, but you can use CPR to keep the person alive until the ambulance arrives.
Is the beating heart of a frog a Japanese delicacy?
Yes they take out the heart when the frog is still alive.
Why the beating heart?
You heart beating lets you know you are still alive. The heart pumps blood throughout your body. When it stops working, so do you (without external intervention). The regular beating of the heart beat maintained by electrical impulses form the heart pacemaker, which is located in the wall of the right atrium.
Is the heart beating?
You heart beating lets you know you are still alive. The heart pumps blood throughout your body. When it stops working, so do you (without external intervention). The regular beating of the heart beat maintained by electrical impulses form the heart pacemaker, which is located in the wall of the right atrium.
Why is your breathing rate high after exercise?
See, when you exercise you get your heart pounding and beating really fast so when you stop to take a break your heart is still beating fast
