{"id":665,"date":"2015-05-20T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=665"},"modified":"2015-05-20T18:47:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T22:47:44","slug":"amiodarone-with-dose-of-300-mg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Amiodarone with Dose of 300 mg!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0196064414015789\">Managing Afib<\/a> in Annals of EM. They are recommending Amiodarone 300 mg IV over an hour and then 10-50 mg\/hour for 24 hour.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I thought something wrong with this, but I checked their reference and it is correct. So, don&#8217;t be surprise of dose of 300 mg in alive patient!<\/p>\n<p>Amiodarone is a very invasive IV medication and I believe we have to use other options before we get to this dose!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.onlinejacc.org\/article.aspx?articleid=1854230\">2014 AHA\/ACC\/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Executive Summary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article regarding Managing Afib in Annals of EM. They are recommending Amiodarone 300 mg IV over an hour and then 10-50 mg\/hour for 24 hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13,14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiology","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}