Beating human heart outside the body

Name: Beating human heart outside the body
Uploaded: 2026-07-17T00:04:12.576Z
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Brokenboba
Description: So at the University of Minnesota they’ve got a real human heart beating on its own outside a body. no pacemaker, just its own electrical system keeping the rhythm going while machines keep it oxygenated. it’s not a simulation, it’s an actual organ suspended in a lab setup

by Brokenboba: Minnesota

So at the University of Minnesota they’ve got a real human heart beating on its own outside a body. no pacemaker, just its own electrical system keeping the rhythm going while machines keep it oxygenated. it’s not a simulation, it’s an actual organ suspended in a lab setup

Transcript (en)

This is an isolated swine heart. The idea is to replicate the physiological conditions that the heart will be in in the body. So the heart is able to beat with its own intrinsic conduction system so it's beating by itself without a pacemaker and we're able to do research on the heart whilst it's beating. We use a clear perfusate, a blood substitute which has the salts that blood has in it so we're interested in looking at how those devices actually interact with the heart and how they affect the conduction system.

Beating human heart outside the body