asystole

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I walked into the room because the monitor was showing asystole (of course, the pulse oximeter had a waveform).

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  1. 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.

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  • 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. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • 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 —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • The effects of hyperkalemia in the myocardium include slowed ventricular conduction and contraction, followed by asystole (cardiac standstill). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • But the person was already programmed to progress to lethal cardiac arrhythmia of asystole and they now have a lethal cardiac arrhythmia.
  • However, watching that woman go into asystole, knowing that we would have to crash c-section her if she stayed in it? —  Random feeds from Syndic8.com
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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀ- privative + συσ, σ1τολή, systole.
 

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