If someone fitted with a pacemaker dies, dose there heart still keep beating?

Answer 1

No, good question, as logically it should still make the heart beat, but it doesn't.

Answer 2

YES YES and YES

The pace maker provides the electrical signal for the heart muscle to pump. It is used for people whose body does not generate the correct electrical impulses between various nodes and bundles of hiss, in the heart for it pump in a controlled manner.

What the heart would do if the pacemaker was not fitted depends on the reason why the person was fitted with one.

If it was also doing the pumping then it would be an artificial heart (no such thing) rather than controlling the pace.

Answer 3

No, although if the pacemaker continues to function, it will continue to recieve electrical signals. As was pointed out above, the definition of clinical death is lack of a pulse, so your heart pretty much has to stop beating, or at least stop beating effectively. Also, when things go that badly wrong, a host of systemic things happen, blood pH drops, waste products build up, the electrolyte balance in cells becomes imbalanced, so with all that, the heart becomes incapable of beating even if there's a device electrically stimulating it.

Answer 4

i think of that pacemakers merely help the middle with it truly is beating via making use of a splash electricity to time the hearbeats precise. Pacing the hearts rythms. It would not easily MAKE the middle beat. the middle works on it truly is very own power.

Answer 5

yes the heart will beat but at a lower ratr the organs cant survive i just went through this with my father

Answer 6

well isnt it a case of people die when their heart STOPS beating?

Answer 7

Uh, no.

Answer 8

duh...no