CPR is frequently unsuccessful because most people are “asystole” (or “flat lining”) when they have a cardiac event. They do not have electrical cardiac activity and can’t respond to an electric shock ...

Complexity of Serpiginous Right Atrium Thrombus Management in Acute Pulmonary Embolism Patient: A Clinical Case Report. World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, 15, 135-141. doi: ...

To avoid the vulnerable period of the cardiac cycle, pacemakers have been ... of documented ventricular fibrillation rather than asystole. The role of mechanical irritation is more difficult ...

On the other hand, cardiac arrest happens when the heart stops beating, either due to a very fast rhythm (ventricular fibrillation), a slow rhythm (bradycardia), or complete stopping of the heart ...

Since 1974, Seattle and King County has been known as the best place to have a heart attack. In 2013, the survival rate for someone in King County who suffered a witnessed cardiac arrest and ...

During second stage of labour valsalva during bearing down stimulate vagus nerve and may cause dangerous bradycardia, asystole and cardiac arrest. Syncope and cardiac arrest have been reported in ...

Sudden cardiac arrest may be caused by asystole, complete heart block with ventricular standstill, electromechanical dissociation/pulseless electrical activity (PEA), pulseless ventricular tachycardia ...

Arrhythmias may be a frequent cause of death during sleep. Asystole is a cardiac arrest rhythm when the electrical activity of the heart cannot be detected. Atrial fibrillation or flutter may ...