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Adams-Stokes Attack
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Also known as: syncope · cardiac syncope · Morgagni-Adams-Stokes · loss of consciousness due to cardiac arrhythmia · cardiogenic fainting · MAS attack · sudden fainting · cardiac fainting · cardiac circulatory collapse
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From one moment to the next, everything goes dark. No warning sign, no gradual fading — a switch is thrown. The heart that was just beating loses its rhythm. The electrical conduction system that triggers and transmits each heartbeat collapses. The brain receives no more blood. You fall. Unconscious. Within seconds.
Medically, the Adams-Stokes attack is a cardiac emergency: a sudden loss of consciousness triggered by a cardiac conduction disorder — usually a high-degree AV block in which the signal between the atrium and the ventricle is interrupted. The heart stops or beats so slowly that the brain's supply breaks down.
But behind the electrical disturbance lies a question that reaches deeper than any cardiology: What happens in a person who literally loses contact with their own life rhythm? What causes a heart to give up its conductivity — to deny itself the signal?
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