Intravenous Procaine

Intravenous Procaine During Thoracic Surgery

A Resume of Intravenous Procaine Therapy

No more intravenous procaine for pancreatitis pain?

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/dig Having been trained in the German-speaking world of pancreatology, I was taught that the pain of patients with pancreatitis is special – special in that it responds well to intravenous procaine, a drug then commonly used as either a local anaesthetic or a cure for ventricular arrhythmias. Special also in that drugs generally used for a pain in other dise...

The effects of intravenous procaine and procaine amide (pronestyl) upon ectopic ventricular tachycardia accompanying acute myocardial infarction.

In tests using dogs with ectopic ventricular tachycardia resulting from myocardial infarction, procaine has been found to be without practical value as an ectopic impulse suppressor agent. Procaine amide has proved to be very effective in reducing the ectopic rate of high frequency tachycardias to low levels, thus eliminating danger of death from the tachycardia. Procaine amide usually does not...

The action of procaine and procaine amide on the heart.

The depressant action of procaine on the heart muscle has been the subject of several clinical and experimental studies (Wiggers and Wegria, 1940; Burstein, 1946; Uhley and Wilburne, 1948; Schaffer et al., 1950). Procaine was found useful in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias occurring in anesthetized patients during cardiac surgery. However, its usefulness in the management of clinical arrhy...