Question

What is the primary goal of antidysrhythmic drug therapy for a client who has been successfully cardioverted?

Answer 1

Maintenance of normal sinus rhythm

antidysrhytmic drugs are used to treat abnormal rhythm of the heart. Abnormal rhythm is usually due to the irregular electrical stimulation of the electrical activity of the heart. This can work by correcting the cardiac function there are four classes of this drugs such as Class I for sodium channels, Class II which are the beta blocker, Class III which are the drugs that prolong repolarization and Class IV which are the calcium channel blocker.