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- of or relating to a ventricle (of the heart or brain)
- 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 (同)cardiac_arrest, cardiopulmonary_arrest
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Asystole |
Classification and external resources |
A rhythm strip showing a couple beats of sinus rhythm followed by an atrial beat and asystole.
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ICD-9 |
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In medicine, asystole //, colloquially known as flatline, is a state of no cardiac electrical activity, hence no contractions of the myocardium and no cardiac output or blood flow. Asystole is one of the conditions that may be used for a medical practitioner to certify clinical or legal death.
Asystole is treated by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) combined with an intravenous vasopressor such as epinephrine (adrenaline). Sometimes an underlying reversible cause can be detected and treated (the so-called 'H's and T's', an example of which is hypokalaemia). Several interventions previously recommended—such as defibrillation (known to be ineffective on asystole, but previously performed in case the rhythm is actually fine ventricular fibrillation) and intravenous atropine—are no longer part of the routine protocols recommended by most major international bodies.[1] Asystole may be treated with 1 mg epinephrine by IV every 3-5 minutes as needed. Vasopressin 40 units by IV every 3-5 minutes may be used in place of the first and/or second doses of epinephrine, but doing so does not enhance outcomes.
Survival rates in a cardiac arrest patient with asystole are much lower than a patient with a rhythm amenable to defibrillation; asystole is itself not a "shockable" rhythm. Out-of-hospital survival rates (even with emergency intervention) are less than 2 percent.[2]
Cause
Possible underlying causes include the Hs and Ts.[3][4][5]
- Hypovolemia
- Hypoxia
- Hydrogen ions (acidosis)
- Hypothermia
- Hyperkalemia or Hypokalemia
- Hypoglycemia
- Tablets or Toxins (drug overdose)
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Tension pneumothorax
- Thrombosis (myocardial infarction or pulmonary embolism)
- Trauma (hypovolemia from blood loss)
While the heart is asystolic, there is no blood flow to the brain unless CPR or internal cardiac massage (when the chest is opened and the heart is manually compressed) is performed, and even then it is a small amount. After many emergency treatments have been applied but the heart is still unresponsive, it is time to consider pronouncing the patient dead. Even in the rare case that a rhythm reappears, if asystole has persisted for fifteen minutes or more, the brain will have been deprived of oxygen long enough to cause brain death.
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ECG lead showing asystole (flatline)
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See also
- Agonal heart rhythm
- Cardiac arrest
- Myocardial infarction
- Ventricular fibrillation
References
- ^ AHA Cardiac Recussitation Guidelines, 2010: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/122/18_suppl_3/S729
- ^ http://journals.lww.com/surveyanesthesiology/Citation/2008/10000/Medical_Futility_in_Asystolic_Out_of_Hospital.44.aspx
- ^ Mazur G (2004). ACLS: Principles And Practice. Dallas: American Heart Assn. pp. 71–87. ISBN 0-87493-341-2.
- ^ Barnes TG, Cummins RO, Field J, Hazinski MF (2003). ACLS for experienced providers. Dallas: American Heart Assn. pp. 3–5. ISBN 0-87493-424-9.
- ^ ECC Committee, Subcommittees and Task Forces of the American Heart Association (Dec 2005). "2005 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care - Part 7.2: Management of Cardiac Arrest.". Circulation 112 (24 Suppl): IV1–203 (7.2 IV58–66). doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.166550. PMID 16314375.
- Cardiovascular disease: heart disease
- Circulatory system pathology
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Coronary disease
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- Coronary artery disease (CAD)
- Coronary artery aneurysm
- Coronary artery dissection
- Coronary thrombosis
- Coronary vasospasm
- Myocardial bridge
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Active ischemia
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- Angina pectoris
- Prinzmetal's angina
- Stable angina
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Myocardial infarction
- Unstable angina
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Sequelae
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- hours
- Hibernating myocardium
- Myocardial stunning
- days
- weeks
- Aneurysm of heart / Ventricular aneurysm
- Dressler's syndrome
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Layers |
Pericardium
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- Pericarditis
- Acute
- Chronic / Constrictive
- Pericardial effusion
- Cardiac tamponade
- Hemopericardium
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Myocardium
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- Myocarditis
- Cardiomyopathy: Dilated (Alcoholic), Hypertrophic, and Restrictive
- Loeffler endocarditis
- Cardiac amyloidosis
- Endocardial fibroelastosis
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
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Endocardium /
valves
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Endocarditis
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- infective endocarditis
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Valves
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- mitral
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- aortic
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- pulmonary
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Conduction /
arrhythmia |
Bradycardia
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- Sinus bradycardia
- Sick sinus syndrome
- Heart block: Sinoatrial
- AV
- Intraventricular
- Bundle branch block
- Right
- Left
- Left anterior fascicle
- Left posterior fascicle
- Bifascicular
- Trifascicular
- Adams–Stokes syndrome
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Tachycardia
(paroxysmal and sinus)
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Supraventricular
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- Atrial
- Junctional
- AV nodal reentrant
- Junctional ectopic
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Ventricular
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- Accelerated idioventricular rhythm
- Catecholaminergic polymorphic
- Torsades de pointes
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Premature contraction
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Pre-excitation syndrome
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- Lown–Ganong–Levine
- Wolff–Parkinson–White
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Flutter / fibrillation
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- Atrial flutter
- Ventricular flutter
- Atrial fibrillation
- Ventricular fibrillation
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Pacemaker
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- Ectopic pacemaker / Ectopic beat
- Multifocal atrial tachycardia
- Pacemaker syndrome
- Parasystole
- Wandering pacemaker
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Long QT syndrome
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- Andersen–Tawil
- Jervell and Lange-Nielsen
- Romano–Ward
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Cardiac arrest
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- Sudden cardiac death
- Asystole
- Pulseless electrical activity
- Sinoatrial arrest
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Other / ungrouped
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- hexaxial reference system
- Right axis deviation
- Left axis deviation
- QT
- T
- ST
- Osborn wave
- ST elevation
- ST depression
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Cardiomegaly |
- Ventricular hypertrophy
- Left
- Right / Cor pulmonale
- Atrial enlargement
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Other |
- Cardiac fibrosis
- Heart failure
- Diastolic heart failure
- Cardiac asthma
- Rheumatic fever
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- Physiology
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Disease |
- Injury
- Congenital
- Neoplasms and cancer
- Other
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Treatment |
- Procedures
- Drugs
- glycosides
- other stimulants
- antiarrhythmics
- vasodilators
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English Journal
- Optimal blood pressure for favorable neurological outcome in adult patients following in-hospital cardiac arrest.
- Wang CH1, Huang CH2, Chang WT2, Tsai MS2, Yu PH3, Wang AY2, Chen NC4, Chen WJ5.
- International journal of cardiology.Int J Cardiol.2015 Sep 15;195:66-72. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.05.131. Epub 2015 May 22.
- BACKGROUND: Adequate cerebral blood flow maintained by optimal blood pressure is important in neurological recovery for patients sustaining transient brain ischemia. Few clinical studies have investigated the relationship between blood pressure and neurological outcomes of patients resuscitated foll
- PMID 26025859
- Therapeutic hypothermia in patients with out-of-hospital arrest.
- Maznyczka AM1, Gershlick AH2.
- Heart (British Cardiac Society).Heart.2015 Aug 15;101(16):1265-71. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-307411. Epub 2015 May 2.
- Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is increasingly used in patients presenting with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Such strategies derive from data that suggest TH may improve survival and attenuate adverse neurological outcomes associated with the cardiac arrest. Consequently, TH has been integra
- PMID 25935766
- Impact of Heart Disease on Maternal and Fetal Outcomes in Pregnant Women.
- Koutrolou-Sotiropoulou P1, Parikh PB1, Miller C1, Lima FV1, Butler J1, Stergiopoulos K2.
- The American journal of cardiology.Am J Cardiol.2015 Aug 1;116(3):474-80. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2015.04.063. Epub 2015 May 9.
- Pregnant women with underlying heart disease (HD) are at increased risk for adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. In this study, we sought to identify the risk and risk factors for adverse maternal and fetal events in pregnant women with underlying HD. Pregnant women referred for echocardiogram with
- PMID 26059869
Japanese Journal
- Neurological outcomes in children dead on hospital arrival
- Identification of High-Risk Brugada Syndrome Patients by Combined Analysis of Late Potential and T-Wave Amplitude Variability on Ambulatory Electrocardiograms
- Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society 77(3), 610-618, 2013-02-25
- NAID 10031138948
- 剖検により全身性炎症の合併が判明した心臓突然死の一例
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