Population
Patients with symptomatic ventricular arrhythmias
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Limits tocainide to symptom relief only; leaves open any mortality benefit in ventricular arrhythmias.
Structured PICO
P
Population
Patients with symptomatic ventricular arrhythmias
I
Intervention
Tocainide (oral lidocaine analogue)
Tocainide is an oral antiarrhythmic agent introduced for symptomatic ventricular arrhythmias, though no data suggest it prevents sudden cardiac death.
Cite This Study
Roden et al. (1986) studied this question.