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Why is it important to keep a heart beating when you transplant it?
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∙ 12y ago
It isn't important, and it isn't kept beating. The heart is stopped, transplanted, and then started again by a combination of drugs and electric shocks. But it has to be kept beating right to the point where it's taken out of the donor's body.
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∙ 12y ago
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