Antiarrhythmic Drugs A practical guide – Part 1 doc

... Unclassified antiarrhythmic agents, 10 7 Chapter 8 Investigational antiarrhythmic drugs, 11 2 Chapter 9 Common adverse events with antiarrhythmic drugs, 11 7 Part 3 Antiarrhythmic drugs in the treatment of ... Basic principles Chapter 1 Mechanisms of cardiac tachyarrhythmias, 3 Chapter 2 Introduction to antiarrhythmic drugs, 36 Part 2 Clinical features of antiarrhythmi...

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... in vestigational Class III antiarrhythmic agent whose efficacyagainst supraventricular arrhythmias appears to be on a par with other Class III drugs, whose efficacyagainst ventricular arrhythmias is at least ... that most arrhythmias ultimately are caused by some change in the cardi ac actionpotential and that most antiarrhythmic drugs work by causing changes in the car- diac actionpot...

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... 91 Chapter 9 Vascular Injuries in the Leg 10 1 Chapter 10 Acute Leg Ischemia 11 9 Part B General Concepts Chapter 11 Vascular Access in Trauma 13 5 Chapter 12 Complications in Vascular Surgery 14 1 Chapter ... undergo a selective aortic arch angiography. 1. 5 Management and Treatment 1. 5 .1 Management Before Treatment 1. 5 .1. 1 Management in the Emergency Department As w...

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... ventricles and can lead to automatic atrial tachy- cardia, automatic junctional tachyc ardia, or automatic ventricular tachycardia. Automatic tachyarrhythmias are not particularly common; they probably ... ends. Mechanismsofcardiac tachyarrhythmias 13 Also, analogoustosinustachycardia, automatic tachyarrhythmias often have metabolic causes, suchasacute cardiacischemia, hypox- emia, hypokale...

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... drugs that cause widening of the actionpotential, predominantly antiarrhythmic drugs (Table 1. 3). Table 1. 3 Drugs that cancause torsades de pointes Class I and Class III antiarrhythmic drugs Quinidine Procainamide Disopyramide Propafenone Sotalol Amiodarone Bretylium Ibutilide Tricyclic ... Vaughan-Williams class Vaughan- Location of General level Potential for Williams class...

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... + Efficacy Atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter – – AVN reentry – – – Macroreentry + /– – – PVCs ++ ++ + VT/VF +++ AVN, AV node; EADs, early afterdepolarizations; DADs, delayed afterdepolariza- tions; ... bypass-tract-mediated tachycardias and on the fast pathway in patients with AV nodal reentranttachycardia. Thus, quinidine has Class I antiarrhythmic drugs 67 Hemodyn...

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... some hepatic Half-life 3 0 1 06 days 12 h 2 1 2 h 8 1 0 h Dosage range 80 0 1 600 mg/day for 3 1 0 days, then 10 0–4 00 mg/day PO 16 0–3 20 mg/day PO 10 -mg IV infusion during 10 min, may be repeated 12 5–5 00 ... supraventricular tachyarrhythmias Terminate or prevent AV nodal reentrant tachycardia SA nodal reentrant tachycardia Macroreentrant (bypass-tract-mediated) tachycardia...

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... of proarrhythmia. Table 10 .2 ranks the efficacyofantiarrhythmic drugs for atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmias and for atrioventricular (AV)- node-dependent arrhythmias. For atrial tachyarrhythmias, ... clinicians have tended to divide the supraventricu- lar tachyarrhythmias into two broadcategories:paroxysmal atrial tachycardia (PAT) and atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation. The term P...

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... control patien ts. In the Canadian Amiodarone Myocardial Infarction ArrhythmiaTrial (CAMIAT) [2] and the EuropeanMyocardial InfarctAmiodaroneTrial (EMIAT) [3], amiodaroneyielded areductioninarrhythmic ... reentrant supraventricular arrhyth mias—esp ecially AV nodal reentranttachy- cardiaand bypass-tract-mediated tachycardia, that is, arrhythmias in which the AV node is part of the reentrant...

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... II: beta-blocking drugs; Class III drugs; Class IV drugs; individual drugs 16 9 Index 17 7 investigational antiarrhythmic drugs azimilide, 11 2 1 14 dronedarone, 11 4 1 15 piboserod, 11 6 tedisamil, 11 5 1 16 ischemia, ... fibrillation, 2 3–2 5, 14 0 1 50 consequences of atrial kick loss, 14 1 1 43 tachycardia, 14 3 thromboembolism, 14 3 1 44 and dronedarone, 11 5...

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