Lidocaine exerts its negative inotropic and antiarrhythmic effects by decreasing inward sodium current, which reduces action potential duration and intracellular sodium and calcium activities.
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Hypothesis-generating for lidocaine's antiarrhythmic mechanism in animals; human translation requires prospective study.
Sheu et al. (1985) studied this question.
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