QUINIDINE IN THE TREATMENT OF AURICULAR FIBRILLATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH CONGESTIVE FAILURE
Authors: J M ASKEY
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1946)

Article1 March 1946QUINIDINE IN THE TREATMENT OF AURICULAR FIBRILLATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH CONGESTIVE FAILUREJOHN MARTIN ASKEY, M.D., F.A.C.P.JOHN MARTIN ASKEY, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-24-3-371 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptQuinidine ordinarily is considered contraindicated for auricular fibrillation in association with congestive failure, or, more accurately, in association with severe heart disease. In certain instances, however, its use has been life saving and has prolonged life for many months in a number of desperately sick patients (table 1). Positive criteria, therefore, are needed to know in which patients with serious heart disease the use of quinidine is justified. White1believes it is indicated in the presence of congestive failure if the ventricular rate cannot be controlled with digitalis. 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