Paroxysmal (Lone) Atrial Fibrillation - FAQs

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Virtual Ventricle: Computer Predicts Dangers of Arrhythmia Drugs Better than Animal Testing: Scientific American

Virtual Ventricle: Computer Predicts Dangers of Arrhythmia Drugs Better than Animal Testing: Scientific American:

'via Blog this'Several clinical trials, including the seminal 1986 Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial(CAST), even showed that the use of certain drugs designed to correct tachyarrhythmia—encainide and flecainide, in particular—actually increased the risk of death.

fucking flecainide.. felt like it was trying to kill me.

Drugs like flecainide were expected to suppress the trigger that caused more heartbeats per minute but instead created conditions for the tachyarrhythmia to worsen.