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Home › Health › Nutrients › Drugs › Anti-arrhythmics

Anti-arrhythmics

(Used to treat abnormal heart rhythms)

Compiled by Pam Duff, RN, CSNC — 2009

  • Cautions
  • References

The following are common examples.

  • Group I — moricizine [Ethmozine and others]
  • Group IA — disopyramide [Norpace and others], procainamide [Procan and others], quinidine [Quinalan and others]
  • Group IB — lidocaine [Xylocaine and others], mexiletine [Mexitil], phenytoin [Dilantin, and others]
  • Group IC — flecainide [Tambocar], propafenone [Rhythmol]
  • Group II — acebutolol [Sectral], esmolol [Brevibloc], propranolol [Inderal and others]
  • Group III — amiodarone [Cordarone and others], bretylium [Bretylol]
  • Group IV — diltiazem [Cardizem and others], verapamil [Calan and others]
  • Others — adenosine [Adenocard], atropine Atro-Pen and others], digitalis [Foxglove], digoxin (Lanoxin), edrophonium [Reversol and others]

  • Deplete: A, B1, C, E, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium




  • Note: Vitamin E helps reduce lung toxicity caused by Group III in particular.

(We invite you to check the books which we have compiled.)




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