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[–] 32 points 3 months ago (7 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Wouldn't it run out of oxygen?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 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.

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