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Can a heart still beat when ripped out of the body?
Yes. for a few seconds after a quick removal, the muscles of the heart will continue contracting.
Are you consider alive or dead when on a heart lung bypass machine?
Typically, if your brain is still in operating form, you are considered to be alive, so to answer your question you would be considered alive.
Would your heart still beat if your head was cut off?
your brain controls your heart, so no
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.
Can some of your heart stop functioning but the rest still works?
Yes, your heart can function fairly normally even if the atria stop contracting. This is a condition known as atrial fibrillation.
What kills you faster a shot to the heart or a shot to the brain?
A shot to the brain, as you will instantly die, you cannot act or function without your brain, if you get shot in the heart you can still live for a short period of time.
Does your brain keep your heart going or does you heart keep your brain going?
Your heart supplies the blood to your brain, however even if your brain is "braindead", your heart can still stay beating. The brain relies on the heart but not as much vice versa. When a person dies from a gunshot wound to the head, the body dies and of course, the heart stops. Either way, no-one can live without one, the other or a substitution. They are both essential to survival.
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."
What is more important the heart or the brain?
Both the brain and the heart is important. If there are no brain, the heart would not be able to work. And if there are no heart, the brain would not have enough blood to function.The heat keeps beating when the brain is dead but only for a few secs.. but when the heart quits beating you have with in 5 min be for the patients is dead. and with in that time doctors can shock you back to lifeSo i say the Brain is more important.the brain, because if the heart stops you might still live but if the brain stops then your dead
Why people are declared dead when the brain stop functioning even when the heart is still beating?
becouse brain is the motor of the body,and the guider of the body
Why people are declared dead when the brain stops functioning even when the heart still beating?
becouse brain is the motor of the body,and the guider of the body
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.
