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Rocuronium Bromide 10 mg/ml Solution for Injection / Infusion

Rocuronium bromide

Read all of this leaflet carefully before you start using this medicine because it contains important information for you.

•    Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.

•    If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or anaesthetist.

•    If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or anaesthetist. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. See section 4.

What is in this leaflet

1.    What Rocuronium Bromide is and what it is used for

2.    What you need to know before you use Rocuronium Bromide

3.    Howto take Rocuronium Bromide

4.    Possible side effects

5.    Howto store Rocuronium Bromide

6.    Contents of the pack and other information

1. What Rocuronium Bromide is and what it is used for

Rocuronium Bromide belongs to a group of medicines called muscle relaxants.

Under normal circumstances your nerves send messages to the muscles by impulses. Rocuronium Bromide acts by blocking these impulses so that the muscles become relaxed.

When you have an operation your muscles must be completely relaxed. This makes it easier for the surgeon to perform the operation.

In adults and children, if you are under general anaesthesia, Rocuronium Bromide may be used to ease the insertion of a tube into your windpipe (trachea), to help with mechanical assistance of breathing and to ensure that your muscles are relaxed during surgery.

If you are an adult your doctor may also use this medicine for a short time as an additional medicine in the intensive care unit (ICU) (e.g. to ease the insertion of a tube into your windpipe and whilst you are receiving mechanical breathing). You may also receive this medicine whenever there is an emergency situation and you need to receive a tube into your windpipe very quickly.

2. What you need to know before you use Rocuronium Bromide

You should not receive Rocuronium Bromide:

• if you are allergic to rocuronium, the bromide ion or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6).

Warnings and precautions

Talk to your doctor or anaesthetist before using Rocuronium Bromide:

•    if you are allergic to any muscle relaxants

•    if you have had kidney, heart, liver or gall bladder disease

•    if you have a heart disease or a disease affecting your blood circulation

•    if you have had diseases affecting nerves and muscles, for example poliomyelitis, myasthenia gravis or Eaton-Lambert syndrome

•    if you have fluid retention (oedema)

•    if you have been told you have low levels of calcium (hypocalcaemia), potassium (hypokalaemia) or protein (hypoproteinaemia) in your blood

•    if you have been told you have high levels of magnesium (hypermagnesaemia) or carbon dioxide (hypercapnia) in your blood

•    if you have lost a lot of water from your body, for example by being sick, having diarrhoea, sweating

•    if you are very overweight (obese)

•    if you are elderly

•    if you have a very low body temperature (hypothermia)

•    if you have burns

•    if you have an increased amount of acids in the blood (acidosis)

•    if you suffer from an excessive loss of weight and poor physical condition (cachexia)

Children and the elderly

Rocuronium Bromide can be used in children (newborns and adolescents) and the elderly but your anaesthetist should first assess your medical history.

Other medicines and Rocuronium Bromide

Your doctor or anaesthetist needs to know if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines. This includes medicines or herbal products that you have bought without a prescription. Rocuronium Bromide may affect other medicines or be affected by them, in particular:

•    certain anti-inflammatory medicines (corticosteroids) when used for a long time with Rocuronium Bromide, for example during intensive care

•    certain antibiotics

•    certain medicines for heart disease or high blood pressure (water tablets, calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, alpha-blockers, quinidine) and magnesium salts, which may be used as a laxative or in certain heart conditions e.g. pre-eclampsia

•    lithium used for manic depressive illness (bipolar disorder)

•    certain medicines for epilepsy

•    calcium chloride and potassium chloride (medicines to change the levels of potassium or calcium in the blood)

•    certain protease inhibitors called gabexate and ulinastatin (may be used for treating various viral infections or conditions such as pancreatitis)

•    azathioprine (used after transplants and for treating of auto-immune diseases)

•    theophylline (used for the treatment of asthma)

•    medicines used for the treatment of myasthenia gravis (neostigmine, edrophonium, pyridostigmine)

•    Aminopyridine derivatives (medicines used to treat Eaton-Lambert syndrome)

•    quinine (used to treat malaria or night time leg cramps)

Please note

In addition, you may be given other medicines before or during surgery which can alter the effects of Rocuronium Bromide. These include certain anaesthetics, other muscle relaxants, medicines such as phenytoin and medicines which reverse the effects of Rocuronium Bromide. Rocuronium Bromide may make certain anaesthetics work more quickly. Your anaesthetist will take this into account when deciding the correct dose of Rocuronium Bromide for you.

Pregnancy, breast-feeding and fertility

If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or anaesthetist for advice before being given this medicine.

There is very limited information on the use of Rocuronium Bromide during human pregnancy or in breast-feeding women. Rocuronium Bromide should only be given to pregnant and nursing women when the doctor decides that the benefits outweigh the risks. Rocuronium Bromide may be given to you if you are having a Caesarean section.

There is no information available on the influence of this medicine on your fertility.

Driving and using machines

Rocuronium has a major influence on driving and using machines. Therefore, it is not recommended to drive a car or use potentially dangerous machines during the first 24 hours after full recovery from the effect of this medicine.

Your doctor should advise you when you can start driving and using machines again. You should always be accompanied home by a responsible adult after your treatment.

Rocuronium Bromide contains sodium

Each millilitre (ml) of Rocuronium Bromide contains 1.56 mg of sodium.

This medicinal product contains less than 1 mmol sodium (23 mg) per dose, i.e. essentially “sodium- free”.

Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children.

After first opening: Since Rocuronium Bromide does not contain a preservative, the solution should be used immediately after opening the vial.

After dilution with infusion fluids, chemical and physical in-use stability has been demonstrated for 72 hours at 30°C.

From a microbiological point of view, the diluted product should be used immediately. If not used immediately, in-use storage times and conditions prior to use are the responsibility of the user and would normally not be longer than 24 hours at 2°C to 8°C.

Store in a refrigerator (2°C - 8°C). Rocuronium Bromide can be stored outside of the refrigerator at a temperature of up to 30°C for a maximum of 12 weeks. The product should not be placed back into the refrigerator, once it has been kept outside. The storage period must not exceed the shelf-life.

Do not use this medicine after the expiry date which is stated on the vial label and carton after EXP.

Do not use Rocuronium Bromide if you notice that the solution is not clear and not free from particles.

Rocuronium Bromide should not be disposed of via wastewater or household waste. These measures will help to protect the environment.

6. Contents of the pack and other information

What Rocuronium Bromide contains

•    The active substance is rocuronium bromide.

•    Each millilitre (ml) contains 10 mg of rocuronium bromide.

•    Each 5 ml vial contains 50 mg rocuronium bromide.

•    Each 10 ml vial contains 100 mg rocuronium bromide.

•    The other ingredients are sodium acetate anhydrous, sodium chloride, glacial acetic acid, sodium hydroxide and water for injections.

Each 5 ml of Rocuronium Bromide contains 7.8 mg of sodium.

Each 10 ml of Rocuronium Bromide contains 15.6 mg of sodium.

What Rocuronium Bromide looks like and contents of the pack

Rocuronium Bromide is a colourless to yellow-orange solution for injection. It is available in vials containing 50 mg (10 vials per pack) or 100 mg (10 vials per pack) of rocuronium bromide.

Marketing Authorisation Holder and Manufacturer

Hospira UK Limited

Queensway, Royal Leamington Spa

Warwickshire

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United Kingdom

Alternate Batch release site:

Hospira Enterprises B.V.

Randstad 2211,

1316 BN ALMERE The Netherlands

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