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What happens if you have heart surgery and they can't get your heart started again. the machine is doing it for you? what would they do next?
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Mechanical Heart: They would give you a mechanical heart to replace the heart-lung machine (portable like Dick Cheney) till they could get you a cardiac transplant. Short of that they would try every medical means to restart your heart.
Answered 8/21/2015
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