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procainamide
A 44-year-old member asked:
Dr. Ryan Keller answered
15 years experience Anesthesiology
Reveals Arrhythmia : Procainamide is a local anesthetic that acts on sodium channels. In the heart muscle sodium channels play a central role in the excitability of myoca ... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
Dr. Ryan Keller answered
15 years experience Anesthesiology
Reveals Arrhythmia : Procainamide is a local anesthetic that acts on sodium channels. In the heart muscle sodium channels play a central role in the excitability of myoca ... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Dan Fisher answered
27 years experience Internal Medicine
Not simple: Procainamide is an arrhythmic medication with very specific indications. Other medications in this class are not simple substitutions for each other. ... Read More
A 45-year-old member asked:
Dr. Rita Agarwal answered
35 years experience Anesthesiology
Certain medications: Effect can be indirectly measured by the Procainamide measurements. Other things may be to measure for procainamide's levels in the body, especially i ... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
Dr. Dan Fisher answered
27 years experience Internal Medicine
Not simple: Procainamide is an arrhythmic medication with very specific indications. Other medications in this class are not simple substitutions for each other. ... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
Dr. Mary Callahan answered
29 years experience Cardiology
Pronestyl (procainamide): Pronestyl (procainamide) or Procainamide is a rhythm medicine that is used to restore normal sinus rhythm in the heart. It can be used in patients wi ... Read More
A 40-year-old member asked:
Dr. Harinder Gogia answered
32 years experience Cardiology
Multiple: It is a generic medicine.
A 39-year-old member asked:
Dr. Peter Fischer answered
25 years experience Anesthesiology
Class 1A: Procainamide is a Class 1A Antiarrythmic. It is used in patients with certain arrhythmia problems and is part of the ACLS/PALS protocols.
A 20-year-old male asked:
Dr. Richard Zimon answered
59 years experience Internal Medicine
This syndrome: is so rare that there is insufficient data to answer your question. If the test you mention is done in a modern , hospital based electrophysiology uni ... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
Dr. Michael Zevitz answered
37 years experience Internal medicine
Not sure: Without knowing more details of the type of heart arrhythmia we are talking about, but most likely, amiodarone, sotalol or Propafenone are the substit ... Read More
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