Question: Is it possible to pull someone's heart out, like in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and keep it beating, even if only for a few seconds?

Asked by jacobhunt to Carina, Emma, Hannah, Mel, Yashar on 31 Aug 2012.

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  1. Photo: Hannah BrownHannah Brown
    answered on 31 Aug 2012:

    Well, its kinda disgusting, but the answer is yes.

    The heart cells can beat by themselves for quite a while.

    I’m not too sure how long for, but i know that a mouse heart will beat for about a minute if you take it out of the body.

    Although, i think it would be quite hard to just tear a heart out of the body…. only in the movies!

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  2. Photo: Yashar RazaviYashar Razavi
    answered on 3 Sep 2012:

    There’s a new machine that actually keeps the heart/ organ that is going to be transplanted “working” en route (on the way) to the operating theater!
    So yes. It’s very possible.
    Just not the “pulling out” and “showing it to them” part!

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