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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

How can you have a heartbeat but no pulse? Aren't those the same thing? ๐Ÿคจ

Heart can continue to beat but if there's nothing to pump through the blood vessels, you won't feel a pulse.

[โ€“] sudoshakes@reddthat.com 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Electrical current firing in the heart can be picked up by EKG, but if there is no blood left in the tube you have no blood pressure.

[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it run out of oxygen?

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Eventually, but it's a muscle. Salt applied to freshly butchered meat will spasm because it's still muscles with sugars left to burn.

Same thing like if someone gets decapitated. The heart might still pump for a while and shoot blood out everywhere. Doesn't mean the person of still alive.

Have you witnessed both these things?

[โ€“] Master@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Doesnt mean they're dead. Could still have brain function a minute or SO after decapitation.

[โ€“] ryannathans@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you cut out the heart it will beat for quite some time after death

[โ€“] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

If you culture cardiac muscle cells, they start beating.

Depends on how neatly you cut it. If you just hack and slash, it doesn't last very long at all. But, as with everything, the more you practice, the better you ...

Oh, wait.

Uh, NVM.

[โ€“] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Things only my ex would know"

[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I am doubtful of that but I haven't ripped enough hearts out of people to know for sure.

The quite some time seems hard to believe but the idea that heart transplants occur must mean that there must be some wiggle room I guess.

[โ€“] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

https://youtu.be/GxGZYM8IA5o

A turtle heart, same concept, nsfw

[โ€“] funkajunk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That implies you've done it at least once ๐Ÿค”

When you heart stop beatin but she still suckin

[โ€“] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Try blowing up a popped balloon and tell us how it goes.