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Amiodarone is used to treat ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. Amiodarone is for use only in treating life-threatening heart rhythm disorders. Amiodarone can cause dangerous side effects on your heart, liver, lungs, or vision.
Amiodarone is commonly used to prevent and treat certain types of serious (and sometimes life-threatening) arrhythmias called ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
AMIODARONE (a MEE oh da rone) prevents and treats a fast or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia). It works by slowing down overactive electric signals in the heart, which stabilizes your heart rhythm. It belongs to a group of medications called antiarrhythmics.
Amiodarone is used to treat life-threatening heart rhythm problems called ventricular arrhythmias. This medicine is used in patients who have already been treated with other medicines that did not work well. Amiodarone belongs to the group of medicines known as antiarrhythmics.
Amiodarone is an oral medication and a solution for injection used to treat ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. Learn who it’s for and more.
Learn about the side effects of amiodarone, from common to rare, for consumers and healthcare professionals.
Initial dose: 1000 mg over the first 24 hours of therapy, delivered by the following infusion regimen: Loading infusions: 150 mg over the first 10 minutes (15 mg/min), followed by 360 mg over the next 6 hours (1 mg/min)
Oral: 400 mg every 8 to 12 hours for 1 to 2 weeks, then a maintenance dose of 200 to 400 mg once daily (ACC/AHA/HRS [Al-Khatib 2018]) or some experts suggest 400 mg every 8 to 24 hours for a total load of ~6 to 10 g, then 200 to 400 mg once daily (Giardina 2019).
Amiodarone is used to treat heart arrhythmias. An arrhythmia is an irregularity in your heartbeat which causes your heart to miss a beat, beat irregularly or beat at the wrong speed. Amiodarone is particularly helpful when other medicines used for the treatment of arrhythmias are unsuitable for some reason.
CORDARONE (amiodarone HCl) is an antiarrhythmic drug, available for oral administration as pink, scored tablets containing 200 mg of amiodarone hydrochloride. The inactive ingredients present are colloidal silicon dioxide, lactose, magnesium stearate, povidone, starch, and FD&C Red 40.