HealthDay News — In a report published online July 16 in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, a case of survival after acute liver failure secondary to amiodarone administration is ...

Why does intravenous infusion of amiodarone cause significant hypotension? Intravenous amiodarone infusion causes significant arterial vasodilation and hypotension not seen with the oral formulation.

This meta-analysis demonstrated that prophylactic amiodarone can increase a patient's odds of developing bradycardia by 70% and hypotension by 62%. However, not all safety endpoints were adversely ...

Antiarrhythmic drugs are used commonly in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia, but without proven survival benefit. In ...

The three main complications of long-term amiodarone use are pulmonary toxicity, thyroid disease and liver toxicity. Pulmonary toxicity progresses slowly in the setting of amiodarone use, may be ...