Arrhythmogenic effects of antiarrhythmic drugs: a study of 506 patients treated for ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation

MS Stanton, EN Prystowsky, NS Fineberg… - Journal of the American …, 1989 - Elsevier
ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation not previously present in that patient were
designated as drug… of the arrhythmogenic potential of several newer drugs such as encainide, …

Clinical characteristics of patients with ventricular fibrillation during antiarrhythmic drug therapy

JD Minardo, JJ Heger, WM Miles… - … England Journal of …, 1988 - Mass Medical Soc
… QT interval, and ventricular fibrillation. The reported clinical … features of drug-associated
ventricular fibrillation in a relatively … the occurrence of drug-associated ventricular fibrillation. …

Comparative effects of antiarrhythmic drugs on the ventricular fibrillation threshold

DE Euler, PJ Scanlon - Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology, 1988 - journals.lww.com
effect on the VFT in the present study, this drug has been shown to be highly effective in
preventing ventricular fibrillation … Furthermore, (B-blockade with timolol had only a slight effect on …

Failure of antiarrhythmic drugs to prevent experimental reperfusion ventricular fibrillation.

M Naito, EL Michelson, JJ Kmetzo, E Kaplinsky… - Circulation, 1981 - Am Heart Assoc
… and drug-treated dogs resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation occurring during the ligation
period of IVA also had ventricular … or drug-treated dogs resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation

Comparative effects of beta-adrenergic blocking drugs on experimental ventricular fibrillation threshold

JL Anderson, HE Rodier, LS Green - The American journal of cardiology, 1983 - Elsevier
effects of beta-blocking drugs as a potential mechanism of sudden death prevention, the
ventricular fibrillation (… to 1.0 mg/kg) of 5 beta-blocking drugs with various accessory properties. …

Drugs versus devices in controlling ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, and recurrent cardiac arrest

W Haverkamp, L Eckardt, M Borggrefe… - The American journal of …, 1997 - Elsevier
… Patients with symptomatic ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, or aborted sudden
… non–class I antiarrhythmic drugs such as sotalol and amiodarone. Both drugs have class III …

Resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation: drug therapy

JS Redding, JW Pearson - Jama, 1968 - jamanetwork.com
… (P < 0.05) more effective in restoring circulation than was treatment without drugs or with
sodium bicarbonate alone. In this study of resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation, it was not as …

Amiodarone for the treatment and prevention of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia

H Van Herendael, P Dorian - Vascular health and risk …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… In patients with shock refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and hemodynamically
destabilizing ventricular arrhythmia, amiodarone is the most effective drug available to assist in …

Chaos and the transition to ventricular fibrillation: a new approach to antiarrhythmic drug evaluation

JN Weiss, A Garfinkel, HS Karagueuzian, Z Qu… - Circulation, 1999 - Am Heart Assoc
… death resulting from ventricular fibrillation can be separated into 2 components: initiation
of tachycardia and degeneration of tachycardia to fibrillation. Clinical drug studies such as …

Handling of ventricular fibrillation in the emergency setting

Z Szabó, D Ujvárosy, T Ötvös, V Sebestyén… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
drugs are considered to be the cornerstones of the prevention and treatment of life-threatening
ventricular … Furthermore, the potential proarrhythmic effects of drugs may also limit their …