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To: MHGinTN
I would just like to know if her heart will beat, unassisted, so long as oxygen is pumped into her lungs. If so, she is circulating her own blood thus her brain --right down to the stem-- is not yet 'dead'.

Her brain stem is dead along with the rest of her brain. Yes her heart continues to beat with the aid of a ventilator pumping oxygen into her lungs. But it won't keep doing this forever. Her blood pressure is already very low and continues to drop. Read the link to the article I posted above. It explains things a lot better than I can.

70 posted on 01/10/2014 1:12:13 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Um, your lack of education is showing. If the brain stem is dead, the heart is not beating without external stimulation.


72 posted on 01/10/2014 1:15:37 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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