If it’s possible to restart a heart, why can’t they do it every single time?

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So if a heart stops you can massage, pump or shock it back to life, and surgeons even stop a heart on purpose before firing it back up, so why can’t they do that 100 percent of the time? What is it that makes a heart stop and never come back? If the brain is working then surely the heart should always come back?

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To add to what others and maybe elaborate on part of your question. When someone dies and is shocked their heart isn’t exactly “restarted”. If someone receives a shock its because their heart is in a rhythm that doesn’t pump blood very well. The shock attempts to correct the rhythm and make it pump correctly again.

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