Agents used for the treatment or prevention of cardiac arrhythmias. They may affect the polarization-repolarization phase of the action potential, its excitability or refractoriness, or impulse conduction or membrane responsiveness within cardiac fibers. Anti-arrhythmia agents are often classed into four main groups according to their mechanism of action: sodium channel blockade, beta-adrenergic blockade, repolarization prolongation, or calcium channel blockade.
    

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Intravenosa ... Novocaina : Tos ... Ticarda / Hoechst A.G. ; representantes: Farmaceutica Hoechst Mexicana, S.A.

Medicines for the heart / British Heart Foundation.

Zur Behandlung der Hypertonie : 'Bretylan' / Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Cardiogenic shock and the role of a myocardial depressant factor / Allan M. Lefer.

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Medicines for the heart / British Heart Foundation.

Intravenosa ... Novocaina : Tos ... Ticarda / Hoechst A.G. ; representantes: Farmaceutica Hoechst Mexicana, S.A.

Zur Behandlung der Hypertonie : 'Bretylan' / Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Cardiogenic shock and the role of a myocardial depressant factor / Allan M. Lefer.