Rapibloc
Rapibloc helps your heart beat normally if it's too fast or irregular, especially during or after surgery.
Form
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Strength
300 mg
Active Ingredient
Landiol hydrochloride
Manufacturer
Amomed Pharma Gmbh
How to Use
Dosage
The usual starting dose is 10-40 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per minute, given as an infusion. If a faster effect is needed, a 1-minute dose of 100 micrograms per kilogram per minute may be given, followed by the usual infusion.
Method
It is given as a continuous drip (infusion) into a vein.
Important
The maximum recommended daily dose is 57.6 mg per kilogram of body weight.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Slow heart rate
- •Low blood pressure
RARE
- •Lung infection
- •Low sodium in blood
- •Headache
- •High blood pressure
- •Fluid in lungs
- •Nausea, vomiting
- •Liver problems
- •Changes in blood test results
- •High blood sugar
- •Stroke or seizures
- •Heart attack or irregular heartbeat
- •Breathing problems
- •Stomach issues, bad breath
- •Skin redness, cold sweat
- •Muscle cramps
- •Kidney problems, less urine
- •Fever, chills, chest pain, pain at injection site
- •Sugar in urine
- •Abnormal heart or urine test results
- •Skin changes or pressure at the injection site
Important Warnings
- Do not take if you are allergic to Rapibloc or its ingredients.
- Do not take if your heart rate is very slow (less than 50 beats per minute).
- Do not take if you have a condition where your heart rate is very fast or changes quickly from fast to slow (sick sinus syndrome).
- Do not take if you have severe heart block, which means a problem with your heart's electrical signals.
- Do not take if you have cardiogenic shock (a serious heart condition where your heart cannot pump enough blood).
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- Do not take if your blood pressure is very low.
- Do not take if you have severe heart failure.
- Do not take if you have high blood pressure in your lungs (pulmonary hypertension).
- Do not take if you have an untreated adrenal gland tumor (pheochromocytoma).
- Do not take if your asthma symptoms are getting worse quickly.
- Do not take if you have severe metabolic acidosis (too much acid in your body) that cannot be treated.