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Anonymous Mon 20 Sep 04:40:19 2021 No.13661258 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13665537 >>13665563 >>13665576

Can we live without pulse but a continuous flow of blood without interruption? Would it bring more benefits?

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Anonymous Mon 20 Sep 2021 04:42:22 No.13661266 Report

Quoted By: >>13661279

idk i'd assume our bodies are adapted to pulsing flow.

however there is the ECMO machine, I'm not sure if that delivers blood in pulses or not

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Anonymous Mon 20 Sep 2021 04:46:48 No.13661279 Report

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>>13661266
They were surprised to find that the body indeed appears to not need a pulse. Unless they missed something, it's pretty astonishing that there isn't some system in the body that uses pulse to regulate itself. Maybe that dependency never developed because pulse is too variable?

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Anonymous Mon 20 Sep 2021 17:09:18 No.13662893 Report

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>>13661279
Sounds about right

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Anonymous Mon 20 Sep 2021 22:50:47 No.13664151 Report

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I think there is a device for people waiting for a heart transplant, which pumps out blood without a pulse, even though heart keeps pumping blood inside.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Sep 2021 08:06:56 No.13665537 Report

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>>13661258
no. your organs rely on that pulsatile flow for something or other. artificial hearts would be ezpz if it werent so.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Sep 2021 08:26:03 No.13665563 Report

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>>13661258
Not a doctor, bur I’ve heard that artificial hearts run without a pulse, but without a pulse, things like clotting factors don’t work properly for whatever reason. So if they get cut, they stop bleeding every slowly.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Sep 2021 08:35:54 No.13665576 Report

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>>13661258
You already do on the level of capillaries, pulsating blood is actually bad that's why the body has several mechanisms to dampen it.

t. a med student

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Anonymous Tue 21 Sep 2021 16:31:14 No.13666684 Report

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>>13665537
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