Asystole

Other patients with less dramatic multi-organ system abnormalities have died from sudden cardiac asystole during the intermediate state of colchicine poisoning. 3 ❋ Unknown (2010)

At that time he went into an asystole rhythm which is flat line. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you expose a heart to a strong electrical shock, it will momentarily stop - called asystole (the disaster equivalent of 'bottoming out'), and then usually restart itself (the 'self-jump-start' process). ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)

If an AED is applied and reads asystole (or some other non shock-able rhythm) it will (correctly) not fire. ❋ Mother Jones RN (2008)

To wait until the last agonal breath though the monitor is asystole. ❋ Doyle (2008)

The patient was in asystole -- which means no electrical output from the heart -- but the code team labored mightily, with CPR and everything else they do, and it worked. ❋ Susan Palwick (2006)

Once the decision to give ECT has been made and a starting date set, standard orders for the procedure should include treatment days and starting times, a prohibition against eating or drinking the day of treatment to avoid vomiting and aspiration, and atropine (0.6-1.0 mg IV) or glycopyrolate (0.2-0.4 mg IV) to be given immediately before treatment to minimize the risk of vagally mediated brady-rhythmias or asystole and to reduce bronchial secretions. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Ventricular Tachycardia VT is an abnormal rapid heartbeat, which can be life-threatening because it may lead to ventricular fibrillation, asystole, and sudden cardiac death.

At one hospital, the technology resulted in an 89 percent reduction in false asystole alarms'' asystole refers to a state of no cardiac activity, compared with a traditional cardiac monitor, the company said in a written statement. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Her hospital course included spontaneous pneumothoraces, hypotension requiring vasopressors, an episode of asystole, infection with ❋ Unknown (2010)

The key to treating asystole is to correct the underlying cause. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The most important treatment-emergent adverse effects associated with intravenous amiodarone therapy in clinical studies were hypotension, asystole / cardiac arrest / electromechanical dissociation (EMD), cardiogenic shock, congestive heart failure, bradycardia, liver function test abnormalities, ventricular tachycardia, and atrioventricular block. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The most common adverse effects leading to discontinuation of intravenous amiodarone therapy were hypotension (1.6 percent), asystole / cardiac arrest / EMD (1.2 percent), ventricular tachycardia ❋ Unknown (2009)

⑤Atropine Class I recommendation (definitely helpful): symptomatic sinus bradycardia Class II recommendation (acceptable, or possibly helpful): atrioventricular block （ AVB ） at the nodal level, or in asystole. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Possible arrhythmias after cardiac defibrillation  ventricular tachycardia  bradyarrythmia including electromechanical dissociation and asystole  supraventricular arrhythmia accompanied with tachycardia  supraventricular arrhythmia with normal blood pressure and pulse rate ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is recommended in EMD and asystole after initiation of CPR Part Ⅱ ❋ Unknown (2009)