Eli5 how do heart operations work

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Let’s say somebody is getting a heart transplant, how do they keep the blood circulating in the body and spilling everywhere?

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During the operation they are connected to a heart-lung machine. This is a machine takes over the function of pumping the blood around the whole body and oxygenating it. This allows the surgeons to remove the patient’s diseased heart and replace it with the healthy donor heart.

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