Antiarrhythmics, class I: Na blockers [block salt shakers]
- Quinidine [queen dining]
- Effective for atrial arrhythmias [trembling atria on plate ]
- Lowers slopes of cardiac depolarization of phases 0 and 4 [staticky hair with more horizontal slopes]
- Displaces digoxin from albumin [ejecting digging ox]
- Can also be arrhythmogenic [trembling heart in the background]
- Lidocaine [Lid Cain (from Bible, Cain stabbed his brother)]
- Effective for ventricular arrhythmias [lid on ventricles]
- Also used as a local anaesthetic [blue hand]
- Slurred speech ["You #@!%"]
- Eliminated by the liver [liver sneaking up from behind]
- Disopyramide [Disco pyramid]
- Effective for ventricular arrhythmias [dark trembling ventricles]
- Negative inotropic effect [heart with weak arm]
- Arterial vasoconstrictor [squeezing the artery]
- Flecainide [flew candy cain]
- Used for ventricular arrhythmias [ventricle bag on the back]
- Negatively inotropic [weak arm heart]
- Causes blurry vision [blurred eye]
- Mexiletine [Mexico & Latin America]
- Used for chronic ventricular arrhythmias [only the "southern continent" has big waves ]
- Procainamide [pro-Cain amigo picketer]
- Atrial & ventricular arrhythmias [whole heart is trembling]
- Eliminated by both liver and kidney [bitten by these organs]
- Causes Lupus-like syndrome [wolf (Lupus = wolf in latin)]
- Tocainide [two candy Cains]
- Ventricular tachyarrhythmias [running heart with red ventricles]
- Causes pulmonary fibrosis [ran over lungs, leaving fibrosis tracks]
- Propafenone [propeller fan with one blade]
- Atrial & ventricular arrhythmias [whole heart is trembling]
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Visual Mnemonic - Antiarrhythmics, Class I: Na Blockers: Quinidine, Digoxin, Lidocaine, Disopyramide, Flecainide, Mexiletine, Procainamide, Tocainide, Propafenone
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