Cardiac-arrest Synonyms

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
Synonyms:
  1. asystole
  2. cardiopulmonary arrest
  3. cardiac infarction
  4. congestive-heart-failure
  5. coronary infarction
  6. coronary-thrombosis
  7. heart-attack
  8. heart-failure
  9. myocardial-infarction
  10. tachycardia

Cardiac-arrest Sentence Examples

  • Will giving electric shocks to a patient who is not in cardiac arrest be more harmful than just waiting for the professionals to arrive?

  • Thirty seconds after the injection of suxamethonium, the patient developed a bradycardia and suffered cardiac arrest.

  • The most common form of sudden cardiac arrest is due to ventricular fibrillation - a rapid, chaotic, lethal rhythm of the heart.

  • In this case, birds who do not have a cardiac arrest at stunning will still be alive when they enter the scalding tank.

  • No one is really sure why she had to fly to South America for such a simple procedure, but she did and ended up going into cardiac arrest.

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