I know medical shows aren’t accurate but I’ve been watching House MD and something commonly repeated is that heart failure is always dangerous because the lack of oxygen to the brain can cause irreparable damage in a matter of minutes.
Modern medicine is so advanced, why isn’t there a way to get oxygen to the brain if the heart stops pumping? Or is it not feasible to fix the heart problem and get it pumping again if the defibrillator doesn’t work?
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You could put the patient on a bypass machine to get oxygenated blood to the brain, but they’d be dead in the time it would take to do that.
It’s not that they can’t it’s that it’d be too slow
Also, a defibrillator won’t start a stopped heart, that’s a lie brought to you by tv
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