Meaning of flatliner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An angler who uses a flatline.
2. A patient with no heartbeat.
   rare

Examples

“[…]unless my heart stops, okay? Nada — unless I'm a flatliner."”

“In spite of his dramatic highs and the canyon lows, Kurt was a flatliner—a patient with no heartbeat.”

“Though occasionally a “flatliner” can be revived with a defib, it is most commonly used to change the uncoordinated contractions of the heart (fibrillation) into a normal sinus rhythm—that is, to defibrillate the heart.”

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