Km Dobutamine Injection 5ml

• KM Dobutamine Injection is used for the treatment of heart failure if the heart is not beating strongly enough.

• If you are allergic or have a history of allergy to this medicine or any of the ingredient of this medicine
• If you have a less volume of circulating blood in the body
• If you are suffering from any heart or blood vessels disease

• Headache, nausea, fever
• Faster heartbeat, irregular heartbeat, chest pain, palpitations, narrowing of blood vessels
• Increase in blood pressure
• Shortness of breath, urge to urinate frequently
• Skin rashes along with fever
• Urge to urinate
• Pain and swelling at the site of injection
• Blood disorder like an increase in white blood cells, inhibition of blood clot formation

Other General Warnings

• You may develop a risk of high blood pressure and irregular heartbeat; the doctor may discontinue the medicine temporarily.
• You have asthma, or you have a history of allergies to sulphites.
• You are suffering from acute heart failure or altered level of potassium in the blood.
• There are chances of medicine intolerance if used more than 3 days continuously.
• You may experience a fall in blood pressure, breathing difficulty, dizziness or impaired balance.
• Increase in heart rate and blood pressure can be seen more frequently in children. Children need to be monitored closely.
• Much caution is required when this medicine is used for stress echocardiography (a procedure that determines how well your heart and blood vessels are working).
• You may rarely have allergic reactions and symptoms of asthma.

• KM Dobutamine Injection will be given in the hospital by your doctor or nurse as an injection
• Do not self inject this injection

• Store this medicine between 15˚C to 25˚C
• Try to keep it away from light and moisture

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Interactions with other medicines

• Medicines used to treat high blood pressure and irregular heart rhythms like metoprolol, and atenolol carvedilol decreases the effect of this medicine.
• Medicines used to treat enlarged prostate like prazosin, terazosin, can cause a faster heartbeat.
• Concomitant use of medicine like nitrates, sodium nitroprusside, captopril, enalapril (vasodilators and ACE inhibitors) may increase heart activity.
• If this medicine used in diabetic patients, it may lead to an increase in the dose of insulin.
• If it is used along with anaesthetics given by inhalation like desflurane or nitrous oxide can cause irregular heartbeat.
• Other medicines like dopamine used to increase heart rate and blood pressure or atropine can increase the risk of side effects.