can you restart a heart that has flatlined
Flatline When a patient displays a cardiac flatline, the treatment of choice is cardiopulmonary resuscitation and injection of vasopressin (epinephrine and atropine are also possibilities).[1][2] Successful resuscitation is generally unlikely and is inversely related to the length of time spent attempting resuscitation. Defibrillation is not recommended,[2] despite commonly appearing on medical dramas as a remedy for asystole, but can be used for certain other causes of cardiac arrest.