Like, how is it possible to live without a heart? Is it like an Indiana Jones thing, where they need to swap it at the right moment? How do the veins and stuff reconnect?
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During the transplant procedure, the patient is connected to a heart/lung bypass machine that takes blood from the body, oxygenates it, and pumps it back in.
The patient’s heart is removed and the donor heart is put in its place, and the surgeons connect the various arteries and veins and then remove the patient from the heart/lung bypass machine.
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