PEDIATRICS Vol. 1 No. 2 February 1948, pp. 205-209
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PAROXYSMAL TACHYCARDIA IN INFANTS

Report of Two Cases Treated with Intravenous Acetylcholine Bromide

HERBERT F. PHILIPSBORN JR. M.D.1 and STANLEY GIBSON M.D.1

1 The Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill.

Two cases of supraventricular paroxysmal tachycardia in infants are presented. In each instance the abnormal cardiac rate was converted to sinus mechanism by the intravenous administration of acetylcholine bromide. One child died from cerebral hemorrhage; the other child survived.

Submitted on September 11, 1947