eli5 – If we can not shock a heart back after it flatlands… how do we get heart transplants to start back up?

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eli5 – If we can not shock a heart back after it flatlands… how do we get heart transplants to start back up?

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We don’t. They are beating the whole time, before, during, and after the transplant. If the heart stops beating before it gets inside the patient then the heart is “dead” and the patient is fucked.

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