Treatment of chronic symptomatic supraventricular bradyarrhythmias with transdermal scopolamine.
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The management of symptomatic bradyarrhythmias can be challenging in patients in whom cardiac pacing is not indicated, such as in the terminally ill or severely demented. We applied a transdermal scopolamine patch on one such patient with resultant substantial improvement in his supraventricular bradyarrhythmia.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Chest
دوره 94 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1988