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Name a medicine that increases heart rate and the force of heart contraction?
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Sympathomimetics: The group name of medications that increases heart rate/contractions (chronotropic) are sympathomimetics. Of these are included caffeine, epinephrine, dopamine, Dobutamine (mostly contraction strength), and many others.
Answered 6/25/2014
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