BACKGROUND The use of propranolol has been proposed to reduce the hypermetabolic response of patients with burn injuries. OBJECTIVES To review the studies published up to December 2013 on the effects of propranolol in burn patients. METHODS A PubMed search was conducted using the terms "burns", "thermal injury", "beta-blocker" and "propranolol", with the filters "human" and "English" and "S...

Baroreceptor function was measured in 18 patients with essential hypertension by plotting the change in pulse interval against a phenylephrine-induced transient rise in systolic blood pressure. The influence of propranolol (160 mg daily for at least 4 weeks) on this function and on heart rate after maximal exercise was studied and correlated with the plasma propranolol level. In 13 out of the 1...

The effects of beta-adrenergic blockade with propranolol were studied in 10 patients with complete heart block and fixed rate internal pacemakers. The patients were grouped according to the absence or presence of premature systoles before propranolol was given. In the patients with premature systoles propranolol was uniformly effective in abolishing the premature systoles. Propranolol was found...

PRONETHALOL, an effective beta-adrenergic blocking agent, was observed to reduce arterial blood pressure in hypertensive patients being treated for angina pectoris.1 Subsequently Prichard and Gillam2 3 compared propranolol, another beta-adrenergic blocking drug, 120 to 640 mg/day, with previously administered methyldopa in 12 hypertensive patients and reported lower blood pressure during use of...

objective(s) in the present study, the effects of aqueous-ethanolic extract from rosa damascena on heart rate and contractility were examined. materials and methods isolated guinea-pig hearts were perfused through aorta in a langendorff mode. heart rate (hr) and contractility were determined in the presence of four concentrations of the extract (0.1, 0.2, 0.4 and 1.0 mg %) and isoprenaline (1, ...

an oral suspension could a suitable dosage form for the geriatric patients. the calcium alginate coated ion exchange resinate of propranolol hydrochloride were prepared using amberlite ir-120 by solvent evaporation. microcapsules of propranolol hydrochloride resinate were prepared by solvent evaporation technique,the suspensions were prepared by using deionised water as the vehicle. methyl cell...