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Antiarrhythmic agents are indispensable for restoring and maintaining normal cardiac rhythm, but successful therapy requires understanding arrhythmia mechanisms and drug pharmacology.
Understanding the mechanisms of arrhythmias and the pharmacologic actions of antiarrhythmic drugs is essential for successful therapy.
Clinicians should integrate arrhythmia mechanisms into antiarrhythmic decisions; leaves open prospective validation of updated strategies.
Antiarrhythmic agents are indispensable in restoring normal cardiac rhythm in an emergency and in maintaining it once the emergency has passed. An understanding of the mechanism of the arrhythmia and of the physiologic and pharmacologic actions of the drug is a prerequisite for successful therapy.
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Edward K. Chung (1973) studied this question. Antiarrhythmic agents are indispensable for restoring and maintaining normal cardiac rhythm, but successful therapy requires understanding arrhythmia mechanisms and drug pharmacology.
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