Asystole:

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Asystole:

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Asystole refers to a state of no cardiac electrical activity, resulting in no contractions of the myocardium and, therefore, a complete cessation of cardiac output. It does not involve chaotic cardiac activity or appear as a chaotic line on the ECG monitor; those descriptions are more characteristic of ventricular fibrillation. Asystole is not the most common primary event in cardiac arrest in adults; that distinction typically goes to conditions like ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia.