Sodium bicarbonate treatment for tricyclic antidepressant arrhythmias in children.
Sodium bicarbonate has modified or reversed arrhythmias due to tricyclic antidepressants in 11 children. It has proved to be the most clinically effective method of treatment of these arrhythmias in children, and reference is made to experimental studies which support this view.
D000639:Amitriptyline; D000818:Animals; D000929:Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic / Q000506:poisoning*; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000628:therapy; D001639:Bicarbonates / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010830:Physostigmine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011217:Practolol / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012121:Respiration, Artificial
D000929:Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic; D001639:Bicarbonates; D000639:Amitriptyline; D010830:Physostigmine; D011217:Practolol