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    Asystole (New Latin, from Greek privative a "not, without" + systolē "contraction") is the absence of ventricular contractions in the context of a lethal...
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  • flatlined electrocardiogram, where the heart shows no electrical activity (asystole), or to a flat electroencephalogram, in which the brain shows no electrical...
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  • Ictal asystole is a rare occurrence for patients that have temporal lobe epilepsy. It can often be identified by loss of muscle tone or the presence of...
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    heart is able to re-establish normal sinus rhythm. A heart which is in asystole (flatline) cannot be restarted by a defibrillator; it would be treated...
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  • In medicine, an agonal heart rhythm is a variant of asystole. Agonal heart rhythm is usually ventricular in origin. Occasional P waves and QRS complexes...
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  • organised or semi-organised electrical activity in the heart as opposed to asystole (flatline) or to the disorganised electrical activity of either ventricular...
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    is a potential risk of asystole, transvenous pacing is indicated. The risk factors for asystole include 1) previous asystole, 2) complete heart block...
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  • bradycardia, risk of heart block Nifedipine: hypotension Propranolol: asystole, asthma attacks Organic nitrates should not be taken with PDE5 inhibitors...
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    cardiac arrest include pulseless electrical activity, bradycardia, and asystole. These rhythms are seen when there is prolonged cardiac arrest, progression...
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    over time, and will eventually reach asystole. AEDs, like all defibrillators, are not designed to shock asystole ('flat line' patterns) as this will not...
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  • Such arrhythmias are defined as ictal arrhythmias and include the ictal asystole, which is a rare occurrence mostly in people that have temporal lobe epilepsy...
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    the treatment of asystole (cardiac arrest associated with a "flat line" on the ECG), with the possible exception of witnessed asystole (as in the case...
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    lightning strike. Initial symptoms may include heart asystole and respiratory arrest. While the asystole may spontaneously resolve fairly rapidly, the respiratory...
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  • reflex may also occur with adults. Bradycardia, junctional rhythm and asystole, all of which may be life-threatening, can be induced through this reflex...
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    episodes of isolated arrhythmias which degenerated into lethal VF and asystole, and various unnoticed, possibly asymptomatic cardiac congenital defects...
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  • blood calcium, abnormal heart rhythms and asystole, dizziness, and sleepiness. Abnormal heart rhythms and asystole are possible complications of hypermagnesemia...
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  • No. Title Length 1. "First Thing to Go" 2:59 2. "My Limb" 2:53 3. "Asystole" 3:05 4. "Trigger" 4:04 5. "Over Those Hills" 3:12 6. "Good Grief" 2:38 7....
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  • seizures have been reported after the rapid administration of physostigmine. Asystole has occurred after physostigmine administration for tricyclic antidepressant...
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  • by a third. In some cases there is evidence that this may escalate into asystole, a form of cardiac arrest that is difficult to treat. There is a dissenting...
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    Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Romano–Ward Cardiac arrest Sudden cardiac death Asystole Pulseless electrical activity Sinoatrial arrest Other / ungrouped hexaxial...
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    with a lipid infusion shifts the dose-response to bupivacaine-induced asystole in rats". Anesthesiology. 88 (4): 1071–1075. doi:10.1097/00000542-199804000-00028...
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    Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Romano–Ward Cardiac arrest Sudden cardiac death Asystole Pulseless electrical activity Sinoatrial arrest Other / ungrouped hexaxial...
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  • 2021). "Mechanisms of syncope and Stokes-Adams attacks in bradyarrhythmia: Asystole and torsade de pointes". Chart 63: Faintness and Fainting, page 161, ISBN 0-86318-864-8...
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    tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, Pulseless Electrical Activity, and asystole. Dangerous, non-arrest rhythms typically covered includes: narrow- and...
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    ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia, rather than asystole or pulseless electrical activity, which usually requires the treatment...
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    international resuscitation guidelines for use in cardiac arrest associated with asystole and PEA but was removed from these guidelines in 2010 due to a lack of...
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    Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Romano–Ward Cardiac arrest Sudden cardiac death Asystole Pulseless electrical activity Sinoatrial arrest Other / ungrouped hexaxial...
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    than Mobitz I in that the risk of progression to complete heart block or asystole are significant. Third-degree AV block occurs when the signal between the...
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    syndrome clinically presents as acute refractory bradycardia that leads to asystole, in the presence of one or more of the following conditions: metabolic...
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  • however, the word cardioplegia refers to the solution used to bring about asystole of the heart, or heart paralysis. One of the first physicians to use the...
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