A comparison of two individual amiodarone regimens to placebo in open heart surgery patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-74

  White, C Michael ^b   Giri, Satyendra ^b   Tsikouris, James P ^b   Dunn, Alisha ^b   Felton, Kathy ^b   Reddy, Prabashni ^b   Kluger, Jeffrey ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DEETHYLAMIODARONE; METOPROLOL; PLACEBO;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA; OPEN HEART SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036301675     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03593-2     Document Type: Article

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