She is probably a healthy, ruddy-cheeked young person who lives in the country, gets up to breakfast to pour out the coffee for some sort of a male relative, goes round the garden snipping off roses in big gloves and a huge basket, interviews the cook, orders the dinner, makes fancy waistcoats for her husband, and failing a sewing maid, does the mending for the family.
Medication Summary. Common drugs that induce atrioventricular (AV) block include beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, antiarrhythmics, and digoxin. Withdrawal of offending drugs is the first treatment for heart block. Patients with block at the level of the atrioventricular node (AVN), in the absence of ischemia, can benefit from sympathomimetic agents or vagolytic agents.
Question: I have been placed on an antiarrhythmic drug called sotalol for my heart rhythm problem. How does it work and what are the side effects? Answer :Sotalol is a commonly used antiarrhythmic drug that has been commercially available since the mid 1980's. It's a very unique drug that it blocks potassium channels in the heart but it also blocks adrenaline to the heart, so it's a beta blocker -- which are commonly used drugs -- in addition to being a potassium channel blocker.