How does a heart transplant work?

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How does the patient survive being heartless before the new heart is implanted and how does the new heart even begin to start working in a new body?

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The patient is put on a heart-lung machine which oxygenates & circulates the blood while the operation takes place. Once the new heart is sutured, it is shocked by a defibrillator and begins beating again.

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