Evidence-based On-call

internal medicine

Tachyarrhythmias

Clinical features
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis

Therapy

Supraventricular tachycardia

propafenone ^b

Why?

It terminates most episodes of SVT (84%: 95% CI: 78% to 90%) ^b

Expiry date: July 2004
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author	CM Ball
Reviewer	H Oral
CAT Writers	CM Ball , N Shenker , CJ Wotton