Therapeutic indications
Amiodarone is indicated for:
Tachyarrhythmias
Population group: both men and women,
only
adults (18 years old or older)
- Treatment of severe rhythm disorders not responding to other therapies or when other treatments cannot be used.
- Tachyarrhythmias associated with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.
- Atrial flutter and fibrillation when other drugs cannot be used.
- All types of tachyarrhythmias of paroxysmal nature including: supraventricular, nodal and ventricular tachycardias, ventricular fibrillation: when other drugs cannot be used.
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments (click for details):
200-600 mg daily
300mg over 20 minutes to 2 hours, followed by 900mg over 24 hours
Contraindications
Amiodarone is contraindicated in the following cases:
Sinus bradycardia, sino-atrial heart block
at least one of
Sinus bradycardia
Sinoatrial block
Thyroid dysfunction
Pregnancy
Lactation
Drugs inducing Torsade de Pointes
Drugs inducing Torsade de Pointes