Obviously requiring a heart to transport blood throughout the body and brain, is a pump or something used as a submission for that?
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They’re put on a bypass machine that is, in effect, a big mechanical heart. It connects to the veins and arteries that connect to the heart itself, so it just has to pump enough to keep the body alive.
And for breathing they’re on a respirator.
So yeah, the machines basically just take over the cardiopulmonary duties of the body durin the surgery.
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