The way you read what? What jayjay wrote? He didn’t write anything that could be interpreted to mean that. I don’t think doctors write “cardiac arrest” when they don’t know the cause of death.
Cardiac arrest isn’t defined as “the heart stops beating.”
Malaria is almost certainly the biggest single killer throughout history. I was always told it was responsible for killing half of all the humans who ever lived, although it seems like that’s probably an exaggeration.
I would think that nowadays it’s stupidity as the leading cause of death.
“Here… hold my beer.” :rolleyes:
It probably is among males age 17 to 30. As to the rest of us … not so much. 
Don’t be so sure mate. 
Do you mean with a pacemaker? Okay, heart stops beating is obviously the short version in laymens speech, since people on heart machines in hospital are not yet considered dead, either.
No, not jayjay. An article somewhere (aimed at laypersons, written in laymens speech) about autopsies done by doctors and the problems with it.
A pacemaker keeps the heart beating (or at least, beating with a useful rhythm). But there exist artificial hearts that don’t beat at all.
I don’t know about that actual statistic, but I have heard that the average person’s chances of being killed in warfare is at a historic low. Most people don’t believe that.
Really? How else do they work then? I mean, I know that “beat” is not quite correct for what’s actually Happening, a sucking-pulsing Motion, - but how else can you get a fluid moving?
And doesn’t the whole circulatory System itself depend on the “push” from the heart to carry the energy?
There are all sorts of fluid pumping systems that are not pulsatile. Vane, centrifugal, etc.
Some efforts have been made to use these types of pumps in artificial hearts. See here: Artificial heart - Wikipedia
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney was famous for having one such heart. Even though alive and functioning for many months with it, he lacked a pulse. Which many political wags thought somehow fitting for his image as a heartless Machiavellian eminence gris.
There are lots of reasons to believe that a non-pulsing pump is better for mechanical reliability. Which is why pulsing pumps are relatively underused in modern high performance applications.
Whether the rest of the human body really needs the pulsing for some other long term biomechanical health reason is an interesting question. I sure don’t know the answer.
Thanks for the info.
Since I’m neither a mechanic nor a doctor, I haven’t heard of These Details. Though if These new types of pumps have been implanted into humans, I trust (hope) that there have been extensive tests and/or Computer models before they got approved, to rule out the blood not coming “back” through the venes because of lack of “thrust” or similar Problems I would expect from a layperson’s understanding of the blood cycle.
Any medical device, technique, or drug must always go through extensive tests before being tried on humans.
let me know when somebody figures out a way to 3D print these things.
Human trials? don’ be silly - slap a bright, primary colored label on them and set them out by the cash register!