[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 will keep beating while it’s alive, even disconnected from the body. However, to continue beating it needs a constant supply of oxygen.

If the heart were to stop beating, then breathing won’t make it automatically beat…

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