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Amiodarone Hydrochloride 50mg/ml Sterile Concentrate

... Intravenous amiodarone hydrochloride is indicated for the treatment of arrhythmias, particularly when other drugs are ineffective or contraindicated. These include tachyarrhythmias associated with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and all tachyarrhythmias of paroxysmal nature (supraventricular, nodal a ...
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Amiodarone role in ventricular arrhythmias in aortic Stenosis

... wall stress. As consequence of the hemodynamic abnormality, myocardial hypertrophy is thought to be a compensatory process that leads to normalization in wall stress. Structural remodeling of the main myocardial components (myocytes, collagen, and microvessels) is initially adaptive, but may have de ...
Management of Arrythmias in Intensive Care Unit - e
Management of Arrythmias in Intensive Care Unit - e

... the general population increases exponentially with advancing age. Risk factors for the development of AF include structural heart disease (70% in Framingham study over 22 year follow up),5 hypertension (50%),5 valvular heart disease (34%)6 and left ventricular hypertrophy. 2 Post-operative AF is co ...
Tachydysrhythmias
Tachydysrhythmias

... – propafenone vs. amiodarone vs. placebo in recent onset Afib (<48h duration) – 78% conversion in propafenone, 83% conversion in amiodarone, 55% conversion in placebo – mean time to conversion 2+/- 3 h for propafenone, 7+/- 5 h for amiodarone – conclusion was both drugs equally effective and safe fo ...
Antiarrhythmic drug therapy in patients with supraventricular or
Antiarrhythmic drug therapy in patients with supraventricular or

... to DC defibrillation is amiodarone. It also appears to improve the response to DC-countershock. Amiodarone is a complex drug with effects on sodium, potassium, and calcium channels as well as alpha- and beta-adrenergic blocking properties. Amiodarone is a highly efficacious antiarrhythmic agent for ...
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... N Engl J Med. 1999 Sep 16; 341(12): 871-8 ...
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... Finally, it must be emphasized that all of the drugs listed in these algorithms have the potential to do harm, so they should always be administered with care and caution. Whenever they are in doubt, junior doctors should seek assistance from their more experienced colleagues before committing thems ...
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ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS
ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS

...  It is extensively taken up by tissues, especially fatty tissues, and has a halflife of up to 60 days  Amiodarone antiarrhythmic effect is complex comprising class I, II, III, and IV actions • Prolongation of action potential duration and refractoriness is the main • It slows cardiac conduction, w ...
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ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS - سایت جامع پرستاران

...  It is extensively taken up by tissues, especially fatty tissues, and has a halflife of up to 60 days  Amiodarone antiarrhythmic effect is complex comprising class I, II, III, and IV actions • Prolongation of action potential duration and refractoriness is the main • It slows cardiac conduction, w ...
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Spontaneous resolution of ventricular tachycardia with right bundle

... But during this period the patient needed antiarrhythmic drug therapy to treat left ventricular dysfunction due to incessant VT. Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFA) in children has also been successfully performed as an option in treatment of idiopathic VT. But RFA is not suggested as the first-l ...
Antiarrhythmic Drugs
Antiarrhythmic Drugs

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Antiarrhythmic Drugs
Antiarrhythmic Drugs

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Drugs for Cardiac Arrhythmias

... amiodarone (E Daoud et al, N Engl J Med 1997; 337:1785) or a beta blocker. 6. These are mostly AV nodal reentry and AV reentry utilizing an accessory atrioventricular connection (bypass tract). Vagotonic maneuvers (such as carotid sinus massage, gagging, or the Valsalva maneuver) that impair AV noda ...
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... (but also has Class I, II and IV effects) • A ‘dirty drug’, inhibits K channels, (delays repolarization), Na channels and Ca channels (slight), blocks betareceptors non-competitively, blocks alpha receptors, potent suppressor of ectopic automaticity (only rarely causes torsades des pointes), and som ...
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Pharmacological Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation: Which Drugs

... such as amiodarone, a class III antiarrhythmic drug, are contraindicated because of their depressive actions on nodal conduction, which may speed up the ventricular response during AF and increase the risk of degeneration to ventricular fibrillation [17]. Instead, in recent years, a single oral load ...
Amiodarone for resuscitation after out-of
Amiodarone for resuscitation after out-of

... or without the use of pressor drugs) to be assigned to a hospital bed. Patients who died in the emergency department were not considered to have been admitted. To permit us to assess the primary end point, patients were stratified before receiving amiodarone or placebo according to their initial car ...
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this PDF file - The Southwest Respiratory and Critical

... intensive care units. Ventricular tachycardia usually shows some regularity on the electrocardiogram but ventricular fibrillation represents rapid and chaotic electrical activity which emanates from the ventricles and appears as an entirely irregular electrical activity on the electrocardiogram. Car ...
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ТАШКЕНТСКАЯ МЕДИЦИНСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ

... Electrocardiographic it does not differ from the normal reduction in diastolic except for shortening of the interval T P. As a result of shortening diastolic ventricular filling and reduce pulse wave at extrasystoles reduced. Atrial extrasystole occurs in the presence of ectopic focal excitation in ...
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1. drugs are used to treat arrhythmias

... Purkinje fibers and myocardial cells in the ventricles so used to treat ventricular arrhythmias. 7. ________ __ ____ antiarrhythmics primarily slow conduction along the heart’s conduction system and used to treat life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. 8. Adenosine ________________ the pacemaker a ...
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ysrhythmia-Cheatsheet

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Antiarrhythmic Drugs
Antiarrhythmic Drugs

...  Amiodarone (prolongs phase 3; also acts on phases 1, 2, and 4)  Sotalol (prolongs phase 3, decreases slope of phase 4)  Ibutilide (prolongs phase 3)  Dofetilide (prolongs phase 3) The characteristic action of this class is:  prolongation of repolarization (phase-3);  AP is widened  ERP is in ...
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Amiodarone



Amiodarone is a class III antiarrhythmic agent used for various types of cardiac dysrhythmias, both ventricular and atrial. It was discovered in 1961. Despite relatively common side-effects, it is used in arrhythmias that are otherwise difficult to treat with medication.
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