[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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Lots of heart function isn’t dependent on the brain and is physically near the heart. Because of that, the heart will pretty happily keep beating even as other parts of the body shut down, but it requires the lungs (providing oxygen) to run the heart muscles.

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