Is it possible for a patient in serious condition to flatline every day in the hospital?

you mean that the same person flatlines every day or that one critical patient or another flatlines every day?

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you mean that the same person flatlines every day or that one critical patient or another flatlines every day?

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From reading his post I believe the nurse was talking about different patients flatlining everyday but he (for some stupid reason) mistook her statement to mean one single patient.


To the OP, did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?

I'm sure they can. Probably won't last many days though.

A body in failure can be revived multiple times.

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I'm asking if it possible for that same person to flatline every day in serious conditio

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You can’t be serious.

I’m not sure what is meant by the term “flatline”.

Patients, even really sick ones, rarely just go asystolic (no physical heartbeat) out of the blue. It’s not like the movies where it’s ‘beep, beep, beep.... beeeeeeeeep’. Usually the heart rate slows or sonstines it may speed up, the electrical rhythm may become funky or irregular, and eventually they slip into a rhythm incompatible with life like ventricular fibrillation. But even that isn’t a true flatline.

On the other hand, if she means such people may code (meaning having to be resuscitated) multiple times then that’s definitely true. However after about the 2nd or 3rd code, it’s usually futile.