Question 235 · LEK · Drugs
In case of bradycardia, adult patients with a heart transplant should:
- A. receive atropine.
- B. receive aminophylline.
- C. receive adrenaline.
- D. undergo cardioversion.
- E. undergo defibrillation.
Hint
A transplanted heart has no vagal innervation — which drugs then fail and which still act?
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