Active Ingredient: Dopamine
For the correction of haemodynamic imbalances in low-perfusion circulatory insufficiency associated with myocardial infarction, trauma, septicaemia, cardiac failure and open heart surgery.
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
For:
Intravenous, between 2 micrograms dopamine per kilogram of body weight and 50 micrograms dopamine per kilogram of body weight, once every minute. The maximum allowed total dose is 50 micrograms dopamine per kilogram of body weight every minute.
Use as large a vein as possible for infusion. The initial rate of infusion is 2 to 5 micrograms per kilogram bodyweight per minute and this may be increased gradually by increments of 5 to 10 micrograms/kg/minute until the optimum dose for the individual is achieved. Up to 50 micrograms/kg/minute may be required, and even higher doses have been used.
A suitable metering device is required in the infusion system to control the rate of flow, and this should be adjusted to the optimum patient response and monitored constantly in the light of the individual patient’s response.
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