flat lines
Cardiac monitor silence
Flat lines refers to the horizontal line on a medical monitor when heart or brain activity stops—the visual representation of death.
To flatline is to die or, more loosely, to fail completely or show no activity: The project flatlined after we lost funding.
His heart flatlined twice during surgery.
- life supportSystems maintaining vital functions
- asystoleZero cardiac electrical activity
- code blueHospital cardiac arrest signal
- crash cartEmergency medical supply cart
- deathsPermanent cessations of life
heart monitor · hospitals · halts · monotony · going nowhere · plateau · stagnation · electrocardiogram · horizontal · cardiac arrest · planar · flatliner · heart failure · stillness · equilibrium · baseline · resuscitation · time of death
flat linespeaks and valleys
Alternating extremes of experience
spikes · oscillations · fluctuations · waves · jagged lines
flat linesheartbeat
Rhythmic cardiac contraction
pulse · vital signs · sinus rhythm · normal rhythm · brain activity
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