Digoxin Is Prescribed to Patients with Congestive Heart Failure Primarily

question 103

Multiple Choice

Digoxin is prescribed to patients with congestive heart failure primarily to:

• A) improve myocardial contractility and cardiac output.
• B) improve blood flow to the lungs, thereby reducing pulmonary edema.
• C) achieve a negative chronotropic effect and thereby reduce the myocardial workload.
• D) control rapid ventricular rates, because many of these patients also have atrial fibrillation.

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