Filgrastim, sold under the brand name Neupogen among others, is a medication used to treat low blood neutrophils due to a number of causes. This includes when it occurs following chemotherapy, radiation poisoning, HIV/AIDS, or is of unknown cause.
Intravenously administered amiodarone causes heart block or bradycardia in 4.9 percent of patients and hypotension in 16 percent. 2 If these conditions occur, infusion of the drug should be discontinued, or the rate of infusion should be reduced.
Amiodaroneâs half-life is very long (58 days), therefore, you would not need to worry about the medication being pushed in the same way as adenosine. For cardiac arrest, Amiodarone should be pushed quickly and then followed with 20 ml of NS. This can be 15, 30, or 60 sec. The sooner that it is in the system, the sooner it will be able to have its antiarrhythmic effects on the body.