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Profound sinus bradycardia after intravenous nicardipine
Hajime Arima1, Kazuya Sobue, Sayuki Tanaka
1Department of Anesthesia, Okazaki City Hospital, 3-1 Goshoai Koryuji-cho, Okazaki 444-8553, Japan. arima@sb.starcat.ne.jp
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|June 29, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
Nicardipine-induced bradycardia has been reported in experimental animals but not in clinical patients. We report a clinical case of unexpected bradycardia caused by nicardipine. The mechanism of this bradycardia was not clear, and depression of sympathetic tone by epidural anesthesia, hypothermia, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation might have been contributory.