[Differentiated treatment and prevention of arrhythmias in myocardial infarct]. / Differentsirovannaia terapiia i profilaktika aritmii pri infarkte miokarda.

Monitoring and electrocardiographic observations were conducted in 900 patients during the acute and subacute periods of myocardial infarction. It was found that without preventive therapy arrhythmias develop in 85% of the patients, and with preventive antiarrhythmic treatment--in 75.5%. A combination of two and more types of arrhythmias was encountered in 42% of the cases. In the presence of routine therapy for myocardial infarction individual antiarrhythmic drugs displayed different efficacy. In supraventricular forms of arrhythmias the most effective drugs are Chinidin and Chinidin-Durules, Inderal and Hiluritmal, in ventricular forms--Lidokaine, Chinidin, Novocainamide, Inderal, Hiluritmal. A combined employment of these drugs against the background of potassium and magnesium salts administration, Inosie-F, water-soluble camphor and Cocarboxylase promoted the restoration of a normal sinus rhythm in 85% of the cases. When the drug therapy produced no antiarrhythmic effect and ventricular fibrillation developed, electroimpulse therapy was employed. In persistent atrioventricular blocks only cardiostimulation was effective.

[Certain problems of intensive therapy of patients with acute myocardial infarct]. / Nekotorye voprosy intensivnoi terapii bol'nykh infarktom miokarda v ostrom periode

The communication is based on the observation of 573 patients with acute and sub-acute myocardial infarction. The arrangement of intensive care units and wards permitted to render timely and qualified aid to the patients with myocardial infarction, to reduce the percentage of complications, and in cases of the development of the signs of clinical death to undertake immediate resuscitation measures. Of the 123 patients in whom clinical death was recorded, 34 were successfully resuscitated (27.6%). The problems of the management, prognosis and prevention of clinical death are discussed. The great importance of a proper arrangement of the intensive care units, of the qualification of the staff on duty and of continuous monitoring is emphasized. Electroimpulse therapy of acute rhythm disorders is highly praised as well as the employment of anti-arrhythic agents (lidocaine, hilurithamal, novocainamide, panangin) in such situations. The tactics in cases of atrioventricular block developing in such patients is described.