ALLMedicine™ Digitalis Toxicity Center

Feb 20th, 2021 - Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a rare ventricular dysrhythmia with a limited differential diagnosis that includes digitalis toxicity, catecholaminergic polymorphic VT, aconite poisoning, and genetic channelopathy syndromes, specific...

Nov 21st, 2019 - Reference Range Folk healers and physicians have used digitalis preparations for over 200 years to treat various illnesses. Like many other medications, digitalis was originally derived from a plant (foxglove). Digitalis strengthens the force of c...

Nov 21st, 2019 - Folk healers and physicians have used digitalis preparations for over 200 years to treat various illnesses. Like many other medications, digitalis was originally derived from a plant (foxglove). Digitalis strengthens the force of contractions of w...

Nov 27th, 2018 - Background Cardiac rhythms arising from the atrioventricular (AV) junction occur as an automatic tachycardia or as an escape mechanism during periods of significant bradycardia with rates slower than the intrinsic junctional pacemaker. The AV node...

May 22nd, 2018 - Overview Defibrillation is nonsynchronized random administration of shock during a cardiac cycle. In 1956, alternating current (AC) defibrillation was first introduced to treat ventricular fibrillation in humans. [1] Later in 1962, direct current ...

Jun 16th, 2014 - Discussion The T waves are not particularly prominent, but the bases of the T waves quickly become narrow. The T waves are tented, as if pinched from above, especially in leads V2 and V3, and are diagnostic of hyperkalemia. The patient's serum pot...

Jan 18th, 2012 - General Comments Editor's Note: Before reading this article, it is recommended that readers first review "Nonauscultatory Cardiac Exam: Assessing the Elderly Person," previously published on Medscape. As with most clinical procedures, in performin...

Jul 1st, 2010 - drug toxicity migraine headache thyroid ophthalmopathy arteriovenous malformations seizures psychiatric disorders. Digoxin, cocaine, paclitaxel, and clomiphene may have ocular side effects, including photopsia.