Arrhythmia is a common cause of heart disease and is characterized by a change in the regularity and heart rate. Pathology can be caused by functional disorders, as well as organic severe heart damage.
The following categories of the disease exist:
- tachycardia (heart palpitations);
- bradycardia (delayed);
- extrasystology (extraordinary reductions);
- heart block (uncoordinated contractions).
Cardiac arrhythmia: treatment
The main sign of the disease is a worsening of well-being, which manifests itself in a feeling of palpitations, dizziness, weakness, constriction and chest pain, rapid breathing, shortness of breath, fainting, and even loss of consciousness.
In most cases, patients for a long period of time do not experience any particular inconvenience that is associated with the disease, and therefore seek help out of time. At the first signs of the disease, you should definitely go to a qualified doctor who knows how to treat arrhythmia. Self-medication in such cases is inappropriate.
You need to know that the correct antiarrhythmic drugs can be prescribed only by a specialist, since each medicine against heart ailments has its own activity. Taking the wrong drug can cause additional attacks of arrhythmia, including those that the patient has not experienced before.
If arrhythmia is suspected, the patient is prescribed an electrocardiogram. This study is the main diagnostic method for heart disease. Usually, antiarrhythmic drugs are prescribed to treat such diseases, which in many cases can reduce the manifestations of the disease. In severe cases, surgery is performed to install a pacemaker - a device designed to support heart rhythm.
Antiarrhythmic drugs: description
To restore the functioning of the heart muscle , Quinidine is often prescribed. It is used to treat various types of arrhythmias. With it, you can stop the attack, in addition, the medicine is also used for prevention. When using the drug, side effects may occur, but with the right dosage, their occurrence is reduced to zero.
Contraindications to taking the medicine are hypersensitivity, atrioventricular block, heart failure, pregnancy, severe hypotension. The drug "Quinidine" produced in tablets of 10 and 20 milligrams.
Antiarrhythmic drugs also have on their list a drug like Novocainamide. The medicine is involved in restoring the normal rhythm of the heart, has an anesthetic local effect. The drug is used for ventricular, paroxysmal arrhythmias, which pose a threat to life, as well as for deviations of the heart rhythm during the recovery of the body after anesthesia.
The medicine "Novocainamide" is taken both orally (tablets) and intravenously in cases of paroxysmal tachycardia attacks. The duration of treatment and the dose is prescribed by the doctor individually.
Side effects include nausea, vomiting, headache, insomnia, general weakness, bitterness in the mouth. Caution should be given to the use of medication for kidney disease.
The medication "Etmozin" is also included in the group "Antiarrhythmic drugs." The medicine has an effective local anesthetic effect, allows you to relieve spasms of the smooth muscles of the heart, dilates blood vessels. The drug is used for ventricular arrhythmias that threaten life, as well as for the treatment of ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
The drug "Etmozin" is contraindicated for patients with severe cardiac arrhythmias, with abnormalities in the liver and kidneys, in cases of severe hypotension.