[ELI5] Why as long as there is respiration (even artificially) your heart will continue to beat?

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I learnt that the purpose of CPR is to induce respiration to the body so that the heart keeps beating, why while we keep breathing the heart will automatically beat?

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The heart, (and everything inside your body really) needs a constant supply of oxygen to “survive”. When CPR is given, we are providing their lungs with air which is turn provides their body with oxygen and keeps them alive and their heart pumping, and prevents them from getting brain damage.

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