First AID Antiarrhythmic Drugs
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| Mnemonic to remember the antiarrhythmics | show 🗑
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| General information about Class I Antiarrhythmics | show 🗑
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| Drugs of Class IA | show 🗑
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| General Mech of Class IA | show 🗑
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| show | Affect both atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, especially reentrant and ectopic supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia.
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| Causes cinchonism, thrombocytopenia, and torsades des pointes | show 🗑
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| show | Headache, tinnitus and dizziness
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| show | Quinidine
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| show | Procainamide
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| Can cause a reversible SLE-like syndrome | show 🗑
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| SE common to all Class IA | show 🗑
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| Drugs of Class IB | show 🗑
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| General mechanism of Class IB drugs | show 🗑
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| show | Acute ventricular arrhythmias (esp post MI) and in digitalis-induced arrhythmias
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| show | Local anesthetics - cause CNS stimulation/depression, cardiovascular depression
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| Drugs of Class IC | show 🗑
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| General actions of Class IC | show 🗑
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| show | Useful in V-tachs that progress to VF and in intractable SVT. Also DOC for WPW.
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| Toxicity of Class IC | show 🗑
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| show | Class IA antiarrhythmics
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| show | Class IB antiarrhythmics
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| Useful in V-tachs that progress to VF and in intractable SVT | show 🗑
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| show | Class IA = Increase AP duration. Class IB = Decrease AP duration, Class IC = don't effect AP duration
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| Area of heart affected by Class I antiarrhythmics | show 🗑
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| Class II antiarrhythmics | show 🗑
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| General actions of Class II | show 🗑
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| Indications for Class II | show 🗑
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| show | Impotence, exacerbate asthma, AV block, may mask signs of hypoglycemia
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| CI of Beta blockers | show 🗑
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| How to remember class III antiarrhythmics | show 🗑
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| show | Prolong Phase 3 w/o affecting Phase 0. Increase AP duration, Increase ERP, Increase QT interval. Use these when other antiarrhythmics fail
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| SE: Torsades des pointes, excessive B-block | show 🗑
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| show | All can cause torsades des pointes (b/c inc QT interval)
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| SE of Amiodarone: | show 🗑
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| show | Calcium channel blockers
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| General mech of Class IV | show 🗑
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| General SE of Class IV | show 🗑
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| show | Adenosine
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| Depresses ectopic pacemakers, especially in digoxin toxicity | show 🗑
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| Effective in torsades de pointes and digoxin toxicity | show 🗑
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