Pays: Australie
Langue: anglais
Source: Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)
argipressin, Quantity: 1 mg
Link Medical Products Pty Ltd T/A Link Pharmaceuticals
argipressin
Injection, solution
Excipient Ingredients: water for injections; acetic acid
Intramuscular, Subcutaneous
10 ampoules
(S4) Prescription Only Medicine
Pitressin is used in the prevention and treatment of postoperative abdominal distension; in abdominal radiography to dispel interfering gas shadows and in diabetes insipidus.
Visual Identification: A clear colourless solution.; Container Type: Ampoule; Container Material: Glass Type I Clear; Container Life Time: 24 Months; Container Temperature: Store at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius
Licence status A
2017-06-09
Pitressin (argipressin) June 2017 Page 1 of 4 PITRESSIN (Pi-TRES-sin) , Argipressin ____________________________________________________________________ CONSUMER MEDICINE INFORMATION (CMI) WHAT IS IN THIS CMI This CMI answers some of the common questions about PITRESSIN. It does not contain all the available information. It does not take the place of talking to your doctor or pharmacist. All medicines have risks and benefits. Your doctor has weighed the possible risks of taking PITRESSIN against the benefits they expect it will have for you. IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS ABOUT TAKING THIS MEDICINE, ASK YOUR DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST. KEEP THIS LEAFLET WITH THE MEDICATION. YOU MAY WANT TO READ IT AGAIN. WHAT PITRESSIN IS USED FOR PITRESSIN is a medicine that contains argipressin, or antidiuretic hormone. Argipressin is normally produced by the pituitary gland. Argipressin acts on blood vessels and the kidney and reduces the amount of fluids you pass in the urine. Argipressin also causes muscles called ”smooth muscles” to contract. If your body does not produce enough argipressin you can get a condition called “diabetes insipidus”. PITRESSIN is used to treat deficiency of argipressin in this disorder. Symptoms of diabetes insipidus include passing large volumes of pale urine and feeling extremely thirsty. Diabetes insipidus is not the same as diabetes mellitus where sugar is passed in the urine. Argipressin can also be used by your doctor to relieve stomach bloating after you have had surgery or an X-ray procedure of the abdomen. ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS WHY THIS MEDICINE HAS BEEN PRESCRIBED FOR YOU. Your doctor may have prescribed it for another reason. There is no evidence that PITRESSIN is addictive. This medicine is available only with a doctor’s prescription. BEFORE YOU USE PITRESSIN _WHEN YOU MUST NOT _ _USE IT _ DO NOT USE PITRESSIN IF YOU HAVE AN ALLERGY TO: • Any medicine containing argipressin • Any of the ingredients listed at the end of this leaflet • Any other similar medicines S Lire le document complet
_Page 1 of 5_ AUSTRALIAN PRODUCT INFORMATION - PITRESSIN ® (ARGIPRESSIN) 1 NAME OF THE MEDICINE Argipressin 2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION Pitressin is a sterile, aqueous solution of synthetic argipressin (8-arginine argipressin). Argipressin is a polypeptide hormone having the properties of causing the contraction of vascular and other smooth muscles and of antidiuresis. Each 1 mL ampoule contains 20 pressor units of argipressin. For the full list of excipients, see SECTION 6.1 LIST OF EXCIPIENTS. 3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM Sterile solution for injection. A clear colourless solution. 4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS 4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS Pitressin is used in the prevention and treatment of postoperative abdominal distention; in abdominal radiography to dispel interfering gas shadows and in diabetes insipidus. 4.2 DOSE AND METHOD OF ADMINSTRATION Intravenous use of argipressin is NOT recommended. Subcutaneous or intramuscular dosage should not exceed 0.75 mL. Dosage should be appropriately reduced in use in children. ABDOMINAL DISTENTION In the average postoperative adult patient, give 0.25 mL (5 units) by i.m. or s.c. initially, increasing to 0.5 mL (10 units) at subsequent injections if necessary. Injections may be repeated at three or four hourly intervals as required. Argipressin used in this manner will frequently prevent, or relieve, postoperative distention. These recommendations apply also to distention complicating pneumonia or other acute toxaemias. ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY For the average case, two i.m. or s.c. injections of 0.5 mL each (10 units) are suggested. These should be given two hours and one half hour, respectively, before films are exposed. Many radiologists advise giving an enema prior to the first dose of argipressin. DIABETES INSIPIDUS Argipressin may be given by i.m. or s.c. injections or administered intranasally on cotton pledgets, by nasal spray, or by dropper. The dosage by injection is 0.25 to 0.5 mL (5 to 10 units) repeated two or three times daily as needed. When argipressin is a Lire le document complet