These are medications that are used to treat unusually fast or irregular heartbeats.

[4] Upon research, the drug shows promising effects on treatment of these condition.

Research seeks to create a treatment with tiapamil in order to mitigate the side effects of the more commonly prescribed calcium antagonist and anti-hypertensive verapamil.

The two drugs have similar properties; however, tiapamil appears to treat arrhythmic conditions without many of the hypotensive, negative inotropic, and negative chronotropic side effects.

It can treat ventricular arrhythmias to a higher degree than traditional calcium antagonists.