To jonrick46.. you said.. “When the brain stops, the heart stops” so when a person is ‘brain dead’ and just laying there in the hospital bed, the heart has stopped right?, I’m not understanding this. Wouldn’t the body start decomposing? Anatomy of the body is some weird shit.
With a person who is brain dead, the heart can keep beating as long as the heart receives oxygen from a ventilator. When the breathing machine is turned off, a patient who is brain dead will stops breathing and the heart stops beating. in short, the brain controls the function of breathing. If the brain dies from asphyxiation, the breathing stops and if there is no oxygen from the lungs, the heart stops quickly.
The EMS team may not have understood what had happened. If they had realized what happened, they could have ventilated the lungs while giving Floyd electric shock treatments to revive the heart.