Agonal breathing is when someone who is not getting enough oxygen is gasping for air. It is usually due to cardiac arrest or stroke. It's not true breathing. It's a natural reflex that happens when ...

Nov. 12, 2004 (New Orleans) -- Training 911 dispatchers to ask a few simple questions can enable them to correctly identify agonal breathing and thus increase the likelihood that cardiopulmonary ...

Gasping for air (agonal breathing) is usually a sign that the heart is no longer circulating oxygenated blood. It’s often a brief and inadequate pattern of breathing. Overview Agonal breathing, or ...

GRENOBLE, FRANCE — Gasping for air before or during CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a strong predictor of survival with favorable brain function, new research suggests [1]. Besides ...

Asystole occurs when no electrical activity of the heart is seen. This may be a fatal arrhythmia when it occurs related to a severe underlying illness (ie, septic shock, cardiogenic shock or ...

Asystole (ay-sis-stuh-lee) is when there’s no electricity or movement in your heart. That means you don’t have a heartbeat. It’s also known as flatline. That’s because doctors check the rhythm of your ...

Asystole is the most serious form of cardiac arrest. It happens when the heart stops beating and there is no more electrical activity. It is sometimes called "flat-line" or "flat-lining" because the ...

Agonal breathing is the medical term for gasping for breath. It is usually a symptom of a severe medical emergency, such as stroke or cardiac arrest. Agonal breathing can be brief or it may last for ...