Kittybeer to Radiology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoDrunk Drivingimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1207arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squareCryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year agoI think death would be preferable.
minus-squareGenericusername@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoWait, how isn’t he dead? Aren’t the nerves that make the heart and lungs do their thing get severed if the spine breaks at that point?
minus-squareflucksy_bango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoOrgans can do a surprising amount on their own. Your heart will beat even without impulses from the brain, it just does much differently. Not sure about the lungs, though. The diagram diaphragm does most of the work there. I don’t know how it would act without impulses.
minus-squareCryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoNah he apparently lived, just paralyzed from the shoulders down.
I think death would be preferable.
Wait, how isn’t he dead? Aren’t the nerves that make the heart and lungs do their thing get severed if the spine breaks at that point?
Organs can do a surprising amount on their own. Your heart will beat even without impulses from the brain, it just does much differently.
Not sure about the lungs, though. The
diagramdiaphragm does most of the work there. I don’t know how it would act without impulses.Nah he apparently lived, just paralyzed from the shoulders down.