How do heart arrhythmias not kill you?

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I have PVCs and get them when exercising, bending over or when stressed and the cardiologist told me they’re completely benign. How? It’s the one thing keeping you alive.

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It’s just one irregular rhythm, it won’t kill you. Your heart is still pumping during an arrhythmia just not as effectively and it usually only happens once or twice. In order for you to actually die, your heart would have to completely stop beating for about 5 minutes, starving your organs, most importantly your brain of Oxygen. One irregular heart rhythm would have close to no affect on your blood Oxygen level, so there is close to no chance it could kill you.

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