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Asystole: A dire form of cardiac arrest in which the heart stops beating -- there is no systole -- and there is no electrical activity in the heart. The heart is at a total standstill. In the past the asystolic heart usually could not be restarted. However, in 2004 people with asystole were reported to be three times as likely to survive if they are given an a injection of a hormone called vasopressin than if they receive adrenaline alone.
Asystole is cardiac standstill with no cardiac output and no ventricular depolarization, as shown in the image below; it eventually occurs in all dying ...
Library > Science > Sci-Tech Dictionary ( Ä′sis·tə·lÄ“ ) ( medicine ) The absence of cardiac contraction; cardiac arrest.
asystole /asys·to·le/ (a-sis´to-le) cardiac standstill or arrest; absence of heartbeat.asystol´ic. a·sys·to·le (-s s t-l, -s s-) n. The absence of contractions ...
Treatment & Management:Emergent Management of Asystole. Asystole is cardiac standstill with no cardiac output and no ventricular depolarization, as shown in ...
In medicine, asystole (colloquially known as flatline) is a state of no cardiac. electrical activity, hence no contractions of the myocardium and no cardiac output or blood ...