CLINICAL MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -What is asystole? Asystole is when your heart’s electrical system fails entirely, which causes your heart to stop pumping. It is also known as “flat-line” or “flat-lining” because of how your heart’s electrical activity appears as a flat line on an electrocardiogram.

Detailed explanation-2: -Research suggests that a prolonged episode of VFib is one of the most common causes of asystole. Ventricular tachycardia: Ventricular tachycardia is an arrhythmia that occurs when the ventricles beat too fast to allow the heart to efficiently pump oxygenated blood throughout the body.

Detailed explanation-3: -During cardiac arrest, an electrical problem makes your heart stop pumping blood to your body. Without blood flowing, you become unconscious and don’t have a pulse. Cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac arrest, can be fatal in minutes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Advanced Life Support guidelines do not recommend defibrillation in asystole. They consider shocks to confer no benefit, and go further claiming that they can cause cardiac damage; something not really founder in the evidence.