what happens to your body when you get shot in the heart?
152310
You bleed to death internally.  It takes about 10-20 seconds.
562335
Not really an issue of the lungs getting enough oxygen or glucose.  If the heart is failing, blood starts to get backed up in the lungs.  The result is called "pulmonary edema."  Fluid seeps out of the pulmonary capillaries into the alveoli.  This makes it hard to breathe (it interferes with gas exchange).
495205
The heart is a muscle.Like most muscles in the body they need to be excercised regularily to perform at optimum levels.Lack of excercise combined with poor diet may lead to heart disease.As well the vascular system is basically the system that gets "sick" you get build up on the inside of your arteries that in turn increases your blood pressure.which in turn can put you at risk for all sorts of things like strokes and aneurisms.your heart needs to be fed as well and this is done by a series or blood vessel connected to the heart.If they become blocked you may have a heart attack which basically kills the tissue being deprived of blood.Regular excercise and a healthy diet increase your chances of good heart health.
1168070
a lot of things that cause heart attack\n1. coronary arteries are blocked -- so blood is not able to travel to the heart muscle\n2. too much water/fluids in the body -- makes it harder for the heart to pump\n3. vascular (blood vessels) problems -- due to smoking and other factors -- the blood vessels constrict, also harder for the heart to pump blood through narrowed vessels.\n4. blockage in the vessels -- constricts the opening\n\nimagine that you are a water pump -- when you are pumping water through narrowed openings, or you are pumping water twice more than you usually pump -- you get tired and you give up -- that's how the heart works.
1130262
that would be dangerously unhealthy. You could experience permanent heart or kidney damage, or die.
276209
I think that's what they call hydrostatic shock, the same thing that kills you when you are hit by a high speed bullet (though in this case, it is a smaller and non fatal version.) \n\nLook at what happens. You draw in a breath, compress it and let it out explosively. There is such a thing as recoil. You expell the breath in the sneeze, but then the back pressure is felt in your veins and arteries; it tingles and it hurts for a little while. \n\nI get it too, sometimes. It is uncomfortable but not harmful, unless you are having an allergy attack and sneeze dozens or hundreds of times in a row. Then it could cause tiny blood vessels to burst and you might get odd looking bruises. \n\nDo your ears pop when you sneeze, sometimes...? Do you sneeze through your nose or mouth? You might try doing it the other way. If you can, try covering your face with a tissue/hankie before the sneeze is ready to come out and relax. If that doesn't help, try seeing an ear/nose/throat specialist, or an allergist. Good luck!
654899
after about 4-5 minutes your brain starts to die, you heart will probably stop soon after that. Less then 10 minutes and you're pretty much dead
1171769
it hurts really bad i was shot in the stomach \nit feels like some one hit you with a steel pipe then the burning begins because of the heat of the bullet .\nyou can feel it in you then you start bleeding really bad and can not stand up because of the pain and injury that the bullet has caused .but the worst pain is when you are healing from the surgery's that you have to go through from the damage that was caused \nnot a very pleasant experience at all
133269
Yes at least for awhile longer. As the breathing becomes more inadequate the heart will work harder and the organs of the body will not be efficient....then there will be a change in blood chemistries.  If the lungs don't work well, the heart will suffer.  If the heart suffers, the kidneys don't work well....it progresses quickly at the end of the end stage.
964568
You will lose lots of blood, go into shock and die...
1020074
thats what would happen in a healthy individual because of peripheral vasodilatation.\n\nin sick people the vessels arent as elastic so the heart rate goes up, and the vessels calibre stays the same so their pressure goes up.
446344
blood being living cells would die and rot...you dont breath when youre dead, so they arent collecting any oxygen, yes like that other person, it will coagulate.  Also your heart isnt pumping so it will not be able to move through the vessels without this pressure, so it will clot...it isnt common for it to build up in the vessels, but the amount of time it was out will determine what happens...it is one of the factors that help crime investigators tell how long something has been dead..CSI/Law&Order-esque
1133176
There is a lot of misinformation here.  I'm an EMT/Paramedic in an ER and I've personally treated many, many heart attacks as well as other cardiac problems.\n\nFirst of all, there is no "guarantee" that you would experience left arm pain, pressure in the chest, difficulty breathing, or even chest pain when you have a heart attack.  These are some of the "textbook" symptoms, but not everyone will experience the same signs and symptoms.  In fact, women tend to have very atypical symptoms.  Many people suffer "silent" heart attacks, where no significant symptoms are present.\n\nSecond, when you have a heart attack, that does not mean that your heart has stopped beating (cardiac arrest).  In most heart attacks, cardiac arrest does NOT occur.  A heart attack simply means that a part of your heart tissue is experiencing damage, often due to a blockage of one of the coronary arteries that provides blood (and oxygen) to the tissue.  The earlier it is detected and treated, the more favorable the outcome.  \n\nIf you think you have experienced anything that could be cardiac, I would recommend that you see your physician ASAP.  They will probably perform an EKG (electrocardiogram) to look for abnormalities in your rhythm that may be indicative of a cardiac issue, and they will probably test certain enzyme levels in your blood (CKMB and troponin) which can also indicate a cardiac event.\n\nHowever, I would be very cautious of trying to get serious medical advice here.  I've seen a lot of poor advice and misinformation given in this category (and in this thread, for that matter).
768625
Well.\n\nAs is said above, it depends on the damage caused, a shotgun or large caliber round is going to be pretty fatal, pretty quickly - three or four minutes of brain function (no consciousness) on the sunny side. Smaller rounds can leave repairable holes.\n\nIn theory, if he's got to a trauma team within a (at a rough guess) fifteen minutes and the injury is successfully repaired, he could continue living the rest of his life normally. HEMS in London have done this sort of operation in the field and successfully saved a number of lives. Normally though, the longer the delay between injury and surgical repair, the greater the degree of disability due to oxygen starvation of the brain. Even if they do survive that long they are almost certainly going to be unconscious, intubated and in ITU, which I guess may hurt your storyline.\n\nIn order to die after 20 hours, there must be a secondary cause - often multiple organ failure, where the various organs of the body (starting with the kidneys) shut down because they were deprived of oxygen whilst the heart wasn't pumping enough oxygenated blood. Other possibilities inlclude infection leading to septic shock.
1114278
Playing russian roulette.  Yes it can be quite dangerous.  Wishing it to go away is silly because without knowing what is going on and fixing the problem even exercise my be problematic.\n\nIf this true happened, call 911.\n\nPain has nothing to do with how mild a heart attack is.  How do you figure out the severity of a heart attack?\n\nPeople get heart attacks because the pipe/pipes (coronary arteries) that supply blood  to you heart muscle is clogged up. When the heart muscle cannot get enough blood (oxygen and nutrients), that muscle dies off.  Without knowing where the blockage is occurring and how much of a blockage, you cannot really assess the potential damage.  It is quite possible to have one mild heart attack and then another.  The key is time.  The faster you can open up your arteries the less amount of heart muscle damage.  \n\nIn addition, damages heart muscles are arrythmogenic.  It is not uncommon for patients with heart attacks to also damage the electrical system in there heart.  They can develope fatal arrythmias.\n\nNext, heart problems can occur on a spectrum.  Patients can have stable angina unstable angina and heart attack.  How can we be sure that your chest pain is not unstable angina?  The chest pain can be a warning sign for a major heart attack.\n\nLastly, without proper medicines after you heart attack, the dead area in your heart undergoes changes ie remodeling.  This remodeling is the normal healing process but it changes the mechanics of your heart.  It can worsen the functioning of your heart.
576588
you die lol\ni really dont know what happens
609717
An air embolus will travel to the heart and get stuck. Basically, the heart can't fill back up with blood because it can't get the air out of the chambers.\n\nIt takes about 50-100cc of air to cause a problem.