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What is Dopamine?

Dopamine is used as an adjunct in the treatment of shock related to heart attack, open heart surgery, renal failure, and heart failure. Off label it is used for symptomatic bradycardia (slow heart rate) or heart block unresponsive to other interventions.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Freezing legs 1 1 Efficacy_slight
Improve mobility 1 0
Stiffness 1 1 Efficacy_moderate
Acute Renal Failure 1 0

See 1 patient currently taking Dopamine

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 1

Reported Dosages

  1,000mg as needed
  1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Dopamine (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 1   Doctor's advice: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped taking Dopamine

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Stopped Taking Dopamine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Dopamine

Always
 1 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Dopamine

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 0 0%
Not at all
 1 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Dopamine

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 1 100%

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Report created on May 25, 2012.