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During a heart transplant, after you take out an old heart and put a new one in, what happens if you cannot get it to beat for whatever reason? death?
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New Heart: During a heart transplant, the patient is put on a bypass machine. What this means is that the patient's blood is pumped through an external device, and then back into the patient. Kind of like an external heart. The patient is taken off the bypass machine with a new heart that beats, generally speaking.
Answered 11/28/2015
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