Primary Care Baseline | ACLS Drugs
Verapamil

dose for PSVT - 5mg IV

Verapamil is effective in the treatment of PSVT which does not require cardioversion.

Verapamil should be avoided in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and in the face of wide beat tachycardia of questionable origin.


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Richard Rathe, MD / rrathe@dean.med.ufl.edu (November 8, 2000)