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.
A
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