Amiodarone Lawsuit

Amiodarone Side Effects

              The Amiodarone HCI injection is for intravenous use only and

contains amiodarone HCI. Amiodarone is a class 3 antiarrhthmic drug.

              The Amiodarone HCI injection is used in patients noncompliant

with other therapy for the initiation of treatment and prophylaxis of

ventricular fibrillation recurring frequantly and hemodynamically unstable

ventricular tachycardia.

              The starting dose of Amiodarone that is recommended is about

1000mg over the span of the first 24 hours. The first dosing is broken down

into 150mg over the first 10 minutes followed by 360 mg injected slowly over

the proceeding 6 hours followed by the remaining 540mg over the remaining 18

hours. After the first 24 hours the infusion rate should be maintained at

0.5mg per minute (720mg per hour).

 Electrical Shock Lawsuit

Electrical Shock Not Properly Investigated

              The Evenflo Co. received a warning letter from the Food & Drug Administration dated August 25 stating that company did not properly investigate reports that the “Comfort Select” breast pumps that they manufacture cause women to suffer electric shocks. Evenflo received 37 complaint form buyers of the breast pumps, but failed to investigate 18 of them. Of these complaints, 3 involved electric shocks. An official from Evenflo told The Wall Street Journal that the problem was a “documentation issue” and that the company does investigate its consumer complaints.