Meanings of cardiac stimulant in English

Its use as a medicine is chiefly that of a cardiac stimulant, and often admits of substitution.

Morphin, with few exceptions, is a cardiac tonic and a cardiac stimulant, unless the dose is much too large.

But it must be remembered that alcohol is not a cardiac stimulant, and that a large dose will be followed by more cardiac depression.

While a powerful dose may stop the heart, extracts have also been used as a cardiac stimulant to treat heart failure or irregular heartbeats.

Ammonia: In the form of ammonium carbonate or the aromatic spirits of ammonia, this has long been used with clinical satisfaction as a cardiac stimulant.

It cannot be termed a cardiac stimulant, although many times a heart acts better and the pulse is fuller and stronger after nitroglycerin than before.

Camphor: This is one of the best cardiac stimulants that we possess.

For the same reason camphor, coffee and other cardiac stimulants which cause cerebral excitation should be withheld.

Cardiac Stimulants.- Acardiacstimulant is a drug which makes the heart beat more strongly and the frequence more nearly normal.

Slight cardiac stimulants, as coffee, affect the heart more than previously; there is some sleeplessness, more or less troublesome, and more or less indigestion.

Cardiac stimulants should not be given, except when faintness or syncope has occurred, and if strychnin is used, it should be in small closes.

The drugs named as cardiac stimulants, however, camphor, alcohol and ammonia, do not leave a heart better than they found it-theyare not cardiac tonics.