Article
Lidocaine converts acute vagally associated atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm in German Shepherd dogs with inherited arrhythmias.
Journal of veterinary internal medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Pariaut R, Moïse N S, Koetje B D, Flanders J A, Hemsley S A, Farver T B, Gilmour R F, Gelzer A R M, Kraus M S, Otani N F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Lidocaine is most frequently used to treat ventricular arrhythmias. However, lidocaine may have an antiarrhythmic effect for certain supraventricular arrhythmias. HYPOTHESIS: We hypothesized that lidocaine would be effective in converting experimentally induced atrial fibrillation (AF) to sinus rhythm and that a decrease in the dominant frequency (DF) and an increase in the organization as judged by...
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