Heart Stop Beating

Directed by Jeremiah Zagar · 2012

Two Texas Heart Institute doctors replace a dying man's heart with a continuous-flow device, proving life is possible without a pulse.

A striking story of medical daring: a man kept alive with no heartbeat at all.

Heart Stop Beating is the story of Billy Cohn & Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, who in March of 2011 successfully replaced a dying man's heart with a 'continuous flow' device they deve

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