CPR & acute HF
adrenaline
CHF
frusemide
benazepril
digoxin
Heart disease is common in all species but is usually only treated in dogs, cats and horses. The pattern of disease seen does not reflect the incidence in animals; most cases of cardiac arrest (and probably acute heart failure) which occur outside the clinic will die. Acute heart failure ± cardiac arrest commonly follow poor anaesthesia - it can be embarassing to take in a healthy animal and give it back to the owner in a black plastic bag.
chronic heart failure (usually presents as congestive heart failure)
The treatment of these is different, although chronic heart failure can (and finally does) progess to acute heart failure then cardiac arrest. The treatment of CHF is likely to change in the future!
sympathomimetics
phosphodiesterase inhibitors
cardiac glycosides