1) Asystole might underlie many of these deaths, which would have important implications for the investigation of similar patients and affect present cardiac-pacing policies.

2) Of patients presenting with ventricular fibrillation or asystole there was a trend toward improved outcome with ITD, but the differences did not reach significance.

3) Asystole underlies a proportion of sudden unexpected deaths in epilepsy, which could be prevented by cardiac-pacemaker insertion.

4) In the lay vernacular of Hollywood, asystole is known as “flatlining.”

5) ECG abnormalities included transient asystole, ST-depression, T-wave inversion and Q-T elongation.

6) It is hard to define the exact time from arrest to arrival at the hospital,[http:///asystole.html] but the initial cardiac rhythm was mostly asystole .

7) Atropine is no longer recommended for routine use in managing and treating pulseless electrical activity or asystole.

8) While a lack of ventricular electrical activity always implies a lack of ventricular mechanical activity ( asystole ), the reverse is not always true.

9) Adequate doses of atropine can abolish many types of reflex vagal cardiac slowing or asystole.

10) At a subsequent syncopal attack, 24 hours ambulatory ECG was repeated and found intermittent complete atrioventricular block with prolonged ventricular asystole up to 19.4 sec.