Chapter Summary

Chapter Summary

This chapter introduced various common arrhythmias and antidysrhythmic drugs for treating them. Drugs were discussed based on their primary mechanism as categorized by the Vaughan Williams classification: class I, sodium channel blockers; class II, beta-adrenergic blockers; class III, potassium channel blockers; class IV, calcium channel blockers; and unclassified antidysrhythmic drugs.