Does molar sodium lactate increase heart rate in patients with bradycardia and atrioventricular heart block?
Molar sodium lactate was evaluated for its clinical utility in increasing heart rate among patients with various forms of bradycardia and heart block.
IN previous communications we have discussed the action of molar sodium lactate in increasing the heart rate in patients with sinus bradycardia, partial and complete atrioventricular heart block and Stokes—Adams seizures, and have described the effects in the presence of terminal cardiac arrest.1 , 2 The purpose of this presentation is to amplify the original observations and to report the experience gained from subsequent studies.Methods and MaterialsMolar sodium lactate¶ was administered to the following groups of patients:To relatively asymptomatic patients with complete atrioventricular heart block whose rates varied from 32 to 71 per minute. The purpose was to determine . . .
Bellet et al. (Thu,) studied this question.