@article {85, editor = {,}, title = {Isoprenaline and pacemakers for complete heart block}, volume = {9}, number = {22}, pages = {85--87}, year = {1971}, doi = {10.1136/dtb.9.22.85}, publisher = {British Medical Journal Publishing Group}, abstract = {Acute heart block is most likely to occur during the first few days after myocardial infarction and does so in about 5\% of patients with this condition. When the infarct is inferior, the artery to the atrio-ventricular node may be affected, producing varying degrees of transitory heart block but often with a narrow QRS complex. The prognosis of patients with such limited lesions is relatively good, the mortality being about 25\%.1 This contrasts with a mortality of about 80\%, despite pacing, for those patients with an anterior infarction complicated by complete block, where the myocardial damage is always extensive and the QRS usually broad.}, issn = {0012-6543}, URL = {https://dtb.bmj.com/content/9/22/85}, eprint = {https://dtb.bmj.com/content/9/22/85.full.pdf}, journal = {Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin} }