(MIL ri none) Brand: Primacor
• You must not receive this medicine if you are allergic to milrinone, or if you have recently had a heart attack.
• If possible till you receive milrinone, speak your doctor if you have a heart rhythm mess or low levels of potassium in your blood (hypokalemia), or if you are pregnant or breast-feeding.
• In an abnormal situation, it may not be possible till you are treated to speak your caregivers about any health conditions you have or if you are pregnant or breast-feeding. However, create certain any doctor caring for you afterward knows that you have received this medication.
• Speak your doctor about all another medications you use, especially digoxin (digitalis, Lanoxin, Lanoxicaps), or a diuretic (water pill).
• While receiving milrinone, speak your caregivers at once if you have a serious side effect such as chest pain, feeling like you might pass out, wheezing or trouble breathing, confusion, uneven heart course, extreme thirst, heighten urination, leg discomfort, or muscle weakness.
• Milrinone is a vasodilator that works by relaxing the muscles in your blood vessels to help them dilate (widen). This lowers blood pressure and allows blood to flow more easily through your veins and arteries.
• Milrinone is used as a short-term treatment for treat life-threatening heart failure.
• Milrinone may also be used for another purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• You must not receive this medicine if you are allergic to milrinone, or if you have recently had a heart attack.
• If possible till you receive milrinone, speak your doctor if you have a heart rhythm mess or low levels of potassium in your blood (hypokalemia).
• FDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether milrinone is deleterious to an unborn child. Till taking this medicine, speak your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.
• It is not known whether milrinone passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing child. Do not use this medicine without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
• In an abnormal situation, it may not be possible till you are treated with milrinone to speak your caregivers if you are pregnant or breast-feeding. However, create certain any doctor caring for your pregnancy or your child knows that you have received this medication.
• Milrinone is given as an injection through a needle placed into a vein. You will receive this injection in a clinic or hospital setting. Milrinone is generally given around-the-clock for up to 48 hours.
• Your heart course and blood pressure will be constantly monitored while you are being treated with milrinone. Your kidney function and electrolytes may also need to be checked with blood tests.
• Since milrinone is given by a healthcare professional, you are not likely to miss a dose.
• Speak your caregivers right away if you think you have received too many of this medicine.
• Overdose can reason severe dizziness or fainting.
• Follow your doctor's instructions about any restrictions on food, beverages, or activity after your treatment with milrinone.
• Get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Speak your caregivers at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
· chest pain;
· feeling like you might pass out;
· bronchospasm (wheezing, chest tightness, trouble breathing); or
· low potassium (confusion, uneven heart course, extreme thirst, heighten urination, leg discomfort, muscle weakness or limp feeling).
• Smaller serious side effects may include:
· headache;
· tremors; or
· light bruising or bleeding.
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may message side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
• Speak your doctor about all another medications you use, especially:
· digoxin (digitalis, Lanoxin, Lanoxicaps); or
· diuretic (water pill).
• This list is not complete and there may be another drugs that can interact with milrinone. Speak your doctor about all your prescription and over-the-counter medications, vitamins, minerals, herbal commodity, and drugs predesigned by another doctors. Do not start a new medicine without telling your doctor.
• Your doctor or pharmacist can provide more information about milrinone.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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