Asystole -
Asystole Information
Asystole definition?
Asystole is cardiac standstill with no cardiac output and no ventricular depolarization; it eventually occurs in all dying patients.
In asystole, the heart is not likely to respond to defibrillation because it is already depolarized, however some emergency physicians advocate the trial of defibrillation in the case that the rhythm is actually fine ventricular fibrillation, or a rhythm that is shockable but too small to be seen on the monitor.
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