Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) summary
The full CMI on the next page has more details. If you are worried about using this medicine, speak to your doctor or pharmacist.
1. Why am I using Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge contains the active ingredient Isoprenaline hydrochloride. Isoprenaline hydrochloride is used to treat heart block and cardiac arrest. For more information, see Section 1. Why am I using Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge? in the full CMI.
2. What should I know before I use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
Do not use if you have ever had an allergic reaction to Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge or any of the ingredients listed at the end of the CMI.
Talk to your doctor if you have any other medical conditions, take any other medicines, or are pregnant or plan to become pregnant or are breastfeeding.
For more information, see Section 2. What should I know before I use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge? in the full CMI.
3. What if I am taking other medicines?
Some medicines may interfere with Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge and affect how it works.
A list of these medicines is in Section 3. What if I am taking other medicines? in the full CMI.
4. How do I use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
- Your doctor will decide what dose of Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge you will receive. The dosage will depend on your condition.
More instructions can be found in Section 4. How do I use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge? in the full CMI.
5. What should I know while using Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
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For more information, see Section 5. What should I know while using Isoprenaline hydrochloride Medsurge? in the full CMI.
6. Are there any side effects?
Ask your doctor or pharmacist to answer any questions you may have.
Some unwanted effects may occur, these include nervousness, headache, dizziness or light-headedness, restlessness, palpitations, sweating, mild tremors, weakness, hot flashed, flushing of the skin, fast heart beat, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), nausea and vomiting.
For more information, including what to do if you have any side effects, see Section 6. Are there any side effects? in the full CMI.
ISOPRENALINE HYDROCHLORIDE MEDSURGE
Active ingredient(s): Isoprenaline hydrochloride
Consumer Medicine Information (CMI)
This leaflet provides important information about using Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge. You should also speak to your doctor or pharmacist if you would like further information or if you have any concerns or questions about using Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge.
Where to find information in this leaflet:
1. Why am I using Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
2. What should I know before I use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
3. What if I am taking other medicines?
4. How do I use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
5. What should I know while using Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
6. Are there any side effects?
7. Product details
1. Why am I using Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge contains the active ingredient Isoprenaline hydrochloride. Isoprenaline hydrochloride is used to treat heart block and cardiac arrest.
Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge is intended to be used in hospitals only.
It belongs to a group of medicines called synthetic sympathomimetic amines.
Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge helps improve the efficiency with which your heart pumps blood around your body. Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge works by strengthening your heart muscles and increasing the heartbeat rate.
Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge has been prescribed for you.
Your doctor may have prescribed it for another reason.
This medicine is available only with a doctor’s prescription.
2. What should I know before I use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
Warnings
Do not use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge if:
- You must not be given Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge if you are allergic to:
– Any medicines containing isoprenaline
– Any of the ingredients listed at the end of this leaflet.
Some of the symptoms of an allergic reaction may include:
- Shortness of breath
- Wheezing or difficulty breathing
- Swelling of the face, lips, tongue or other parts of the body
- Rash, itching or hives on the skin
- You must not be given Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge if you have any of the following:
– fast heart rate
– fast, slow or irregular heart beat caused by digitalis toxicity
– medicines used to treat unusual heart beat, such as inotropic therapy
– recently suffered a heart attack
– a feeling of tightness, pressure or heaviness in the chest
Do not take this medicine after the expiry date printed on the pack or if the packaging is torn or shows signs of tampering.
If it has expired or is damaged, return it to your pharmacist for disposal.
If you are not sure whether you should start taking this medicine, talk to your doctor.
Before you are given it
Tell your doctor if you have allergies to any other medicines, foods, preservatives or dyes.
Tell your doctor if you have or have had any of the following medical conditions:
- asthma
- diabetes
- hyperthyroidism
- other heart conditions
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant or are breast-feeding.
Your doctor can discuss with you the risks and benefits involved.
If you have not told your doctor about any of the above, tell him/her before you start taking Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge.
3. What if I am taking other medicines?
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking any other medicines, including any medicines, vitamins or supplements that you buy without a prescription from your pharmacy, supermarket or health food shop.
Some medicines and Isoprenaline hydrochloride may interfere with each other. These include:
- Combined use of adrenaline and digitalis, medicines used to stimulate the heart
- Inhalational anaesthetics such as halothane and cyclopropane
- medicines used to treat certain mental and emotional conditions such as chlorpromazine or monoamine oxidase inhibitors
- slow injection of Isoprenaline hydrochloride in combination with aminophylline, theophylline and intravenous corticosteroids
4. How do I use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
How much to take/use
Your doctor will decide what dose you will receive. The dosage will depend on your condition.
When to take/use Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge
Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge is used to treat heart block and cardiac arrest. Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge is intended to be used in hospitals only.
Isoprenaline hydrochloride helps improve the efficiency with which your heart pumps blood around your body. Isoprenaline hydrochloride works by strengthening your heart muscles and increasing the heartbeat rate.
How to take Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge
Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge will normally be given to you as an injection under the skin, or into the vein, muscle or heart.
If you use too much Isoprenaline hydrochloride
As Isoprenaline hydrochloride is given to you under the supervision of your doctor, it is very unlikely that you will receive too much. However, if you experience any severe side effects after being given Isoprenaline hydrochloride, tell your doctor immediately or go to Accident and Emergency at the nearest hospital.
You may need urgent medical attention.
In case of overdose, immediately contact the Poisons Information Centre for advice (telephone 13 11 26 in Australia).
Symptoms of Isoprenaline hydrochloride overdose include the side effects listed below in the ‘Side Effects’ section but are usually of a more severe nature.
5. What should I know while using Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge?
Things you should do
If you are about to be started on any new medicine, remind your doctor and pharmacist that you are taking Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge.
Tell any other doctors, dentists and pharmacists who treat you that you are taking this medicine.
If you are going to have surgery, tell the surgeon or anaesthetist that you are taking this medicine.
It may affect other medicines used during surgery.
If you become pregnant while taking this medicine, tell your doctor immediately.
If you are about to have any blood tests, tell your doctor that you are taking this medicine.
It may interfere with the results of some tests.
Keep all of your doctor’s appointments so that your progress can be checked.
Things you should not do
Driving or using machines
Be careful driving or operating machinery until you know how Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge affects you.
This medicine may cause dizziness and light-headedness in some people. If you have any of these symptoms, do not drive, operate machinery or do anything else that could be dangerous.
Drinking alcohol
Be careful when drinking alcohol while you are taking this medicine.
If you drink alcohol, dizziness or light-headedness may be worse.
If you feel light-headed, dizzy or faint when getting out of bed or standing up, get up slowly.
Standing up slowly, especially when you get up from bed or chairs, will help your body get used to the change in position and blood pressure. If this problem continues or gets worse, talk to your doctor.
Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge will be stored in the pharmacy or on the ward. Store below 25°C, protected from light.
Do not store it:
- in the bathroom or near a sink, or
- in the car or on windowsills.
Keep it where young children cannot reach it.
When to discard your medicine
Do not take this medicine after the expiry date printed on the pack or if the packaging is torn or shows signs of tampering.
If it has expired or is damaged, return it to your pharmacist for disposal.
Getting rid of any unwanted medicine
If you no longer need to use this medicine or it is out of date, take it to any pharmacy for safe disposal.
Do not use this medicine after the expiry date.
6. Are there any side effects?
Tell your doctor or pharmacist as soon as possible if you do not feel well while you are being given Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge.
This medicine helps most people with heart block and cardiac arrest, but it may have unwanted side effects in a few people. All medicines can have side effects. Sometimes they are serious, most of the time they are not. You may need medical attention if you get some of the side effects.
Do not be alarmed by the following lists of side effects. You may not experience any of them.
Ask your doctor or pharmacist to answer any questions you may have.
Some unwanted effects may occur when being treated with Isoprenaline hydrochloride.
Less serious side effects
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Speak to your doctor if you have any of these less serious side effects and they worry you. |
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you notice anything that is making you feel unwell.
Other side effects not listed above may also occur in some people.
Reporting side effects
After you have received medical advice for any side effects you experience, you can report side effects to the Therapeutic Goods Administration online at www.tga.gov.au/reporting-problems.
By reporting side effects, you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine.
Always make sure you speak to your doctor or pharmacist before you decide to stop taking any of your medicines.
7. Product details
This medicine is only available with a doctor’s prescription.
What Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge contains
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Isoprenaline hydrochloride |
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Do not take this medicine if you are allergic to any of these ingredients.
What Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge looks like
Solution for injection
Clear, colorless to slightly yellow colour solution. Practically free from any visible particles It is available as:
Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge 0.2 mg/1mL and 1.0 mg/5 mL solution for injection is filled into 1 mL and 5 mL clear glass ampoules with a blue band and a white OPC mark.
Pack sizes:
0.2 mg/1 mL – cartons containing 5 or 25 ampoules
1.0 mg/5 mL – cartons containing 10 ampoules
Australian Registration number:
0.2 mg/1 mL: AUST R 358313
1.0 mg/5 mL: AUST R 377578
Who distributes Isoprenaline Hydrochloride Medsurge
Medsurge Healthcare Pty Limited
Unit 2, 6-7 Gilda Court
MULGRAVE VICTORIA 3170
Tel: 1300 788 261
www.medsurge.com.au
This leaflet was prepared in February 2022.
Published by MIMS May 2022