Benzodiazepines myocardial infarction

Therapeutic indications for benzodiazepines include anxiety states associated with neurotic, phobic, and depressive disorders, or myocardial infarction (decrease in cardiac stimulation due to anxiety) insomnia preanesthetic (preoperative) medication epileptic seizures and hypertonia of skeletal musculature (spasticity, rigidity). 

From the influence of the autonomic nervous system it follows that all sympatholytic or sympathomimetic and parasympatholytic or parasympathomimetic drugs can produce corresponding effects on cardiac performance. These possibilities are exploited therapeutically for instance, p-blockers for suppressing excessive sympathetic drive (p. 96) ipratropium for treating sinus bradycardia (p. 108). An unwanted activation of the sympathetic system can result from anxiety, pain, and other emotional stress. In these cases, the heart can be protected from harmful stimulation by psychopharmaceuticals such as benzodiazepines (diazepam and others important in myocardial infarction). 

Benzodiazepines have been used to treat anxiety associated with acute myocardial infarction... 

Benzodiazepines have been used fo freaf anxiefy associated wifh acute myocardial Infarction... 

Myocardial infarction has been documented in 6% of patients who present to emergency departments with cocaine-associated chest pain (51,52). Treatment of cocaine-associated myocardial infarction has previously generally been conservative, using benzodiazepines, aspirin, glyceryl trinitrate, calcium channel blockers, and thromboljdic drugs. In the context of 10 patients with cocaine-associated myocardial infarction, who were... 

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