title: Aggressive management of ventricular arrhythmias. With newer techniques to predict drug efficacy.
abstract: Although myocardial infarction is perhaps the more dramatic cause of sudden cardiac death, it is cardiac arrhythmias without infarction that account for over half of these deaths. Dr Wells outlines the various means available for monitoring pharmacologic suppression of arrhythmias to provide maximum effectiveness and discusses two other means of control, pacing and surgery.
mesh_terms: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005080:Exercise Test; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents