• sudoshakes@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      26 days ago

      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.

        • hansolo@lemmy.today
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          24 days ago

          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.