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Non-pharmacological termination of a supraventricular tachycardia
1Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Zimbabwe Medical School, Harare, Zimbabwe. kbhagat@healthnet.zw
The Central African Journal of Medicine
|October 6, 2000
Abstract:
Patients with re-entrant supraventricular tachycardias frequently attend casualty departments for termination of their rhythm. With the advent of adenosine in the physician's pharmaceutical armoury, the ease and effectiveness of vagal stimulation is being forgotten.