Transdermal scopolamine as treatment of bradyarrhythmias

Chest. 1992 Jun;101(6):1588-90. doi: 10.1378/chest.101.6.1588.

Abstract

Fifteen patients with different degrees of chronic bradyarrhythmias of supraventricular origin were studied with Holter monitoring before and during application of a transdermal patch of scopolamine. No changes were found in the mean or minimal heart rates, standard deviation of the RR interval, or the degree of bradyarrhythmia. It is concluded that transdermal scopolamine is not an adequate treatment of chronic symptomatic bradyarrhythmias.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Cutaneous
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Bradycardia / drug therapy*
  • Bradycardia / physiopathology
  • Drug Evaluation
  • Electrocardiography, Ambulatory
  • Female
  • Heart Rate / drug effects
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Scopolamine / administration & dosage*
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Scopolamine