eli5: Why do Heart-Lungs bypass machine can’t keep someone alive for more than days?
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Blood clots outside of the body, so we have to use very powerful anti-clotting meds (heparin). Besides the obvious bleeding issues, it causes side effects in long term use. But the main thing you worry about is a massive brain bleed or bleeding in another part of the body because of the heparin.
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