Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, that condition in which a dilated and enfeebled heart remains continuously filled with blood on account of the inability of the left ventricle to discharge more than a small part of its contents. Also called
asystolism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.
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- noun pathology, cardiology
Absence ofsystole ;failure of theheart tocontract .
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- noun absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other patients with less dramatic multi-organ system abnormalities have died from sudden cardiac asystole during the intermediate state of colchicine poisoning. 3
Colchicine Poisoning 2010
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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).
ESCAPE FIRES Maggie Jochild 2007
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At that time he went into an asystole rhythm which is flat line.
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At that time he went into an asystole rhythm which is flat line.
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At that time he went into an asystole rhythm which is flat line.
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If an AED is applied and reads asystole (or some other non shock-able rhythm) it will (correctly) not fire.
Wanted: Nurses for American Airlines Mother Jones RN 2008
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To wait until the last agonal breath though the monitor is asystole.
Titrate until comfortable doyle 2008
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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.
Archive 2006-10-01 Susan Palwick 2006
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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.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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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.
unknown title 2011
chained_bear commented on the word asystole
Like the word intubate, this makes me think of any given episode of E.R.
July 15, 2009