title: Mechanisms of arrhythmias: enhanced automaticity and reentry.
abstract: Table 2 provides an overview of the classifications of antiarrhythmic agents, their actions, and their uses against reentrant arrhythmias and those caused by enhanced automaticity. Table 3 reviews many of the differences between the two mechanisms of arrhythmias: enhanced automaticity and reentry. Clinical distinction will assist in the most appropriate choice of therapy for terminating cardiac arrhythmias.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Weller
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Noone
mesh_terms: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000145:classification* / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents