General Info:

Sotalol is in a group of drugs called beta-blockers. Beta-blockers affect the heart and circulation (blood flow through arteries and veins).

Sotalol is used to treat a serious type of fast heartbeat called sustained ventricular tachycardia. Sotalol is also used to treat certain fast/irregular heartbeats in patients with severe symptoms such as weakness and shortness of breath. Sotalol helps to lessen these symptoms. It slows the heart rate and helps the heart to beat more normally and regularly. Sotalol is both a beta blocker and an anti-arrhythmic.

Sotalol is used to help keep the heart beating normally in people with certain heart rhythm disorders of the ventricles (the lower chambers of the heart that allow blood to flow out of the heart). Sotalol is used in people with ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation.

Sotalol is sold as brand names:

• Betapace