Comment on How does death with a mechanical/artificial heart work?

dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

This isn’t what you asked exactly, but I know they can externally disable a pacemaker once the patient is determined to be deceased so it will stop trying to shock the heart back. Otherwise it will continue to try to save the person.

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