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Cessation of heart beat or MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION. If it is treated within a few minutes, heart arrest can be reversed in most cases to normal cardiac rhythm and effective circulation.
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- Asystole
- Cardiac Arrest
- Arrest, Cardiac
- Arrest, Heart
- Asystoles
- Cardiopulmonary Arrest
- Arrest, Cardiopulmonary
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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do not confuse with CARDIAC ARREST, SUDDEN see DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC
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History Note
ASYSTOLE was see under ARRHYTHMIA 1969-90
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Heart Arrest. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006323. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006323
- Heart Arrest. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_arrest
- Heart Arrest. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202837