Pharmaniaga Noradrenaline Contraindications

Noradrenaline should not be given to patients who are hypotensive from blood volume deficits except as an emergency measure to maintain coronary and cerebral artery perfusion until blood volume replacement therapy can be completed. If noradrenaline is continuously administered to maintain blood pressure in the absence of blood volume replacement, the following may occur: severe peripheral and visceral vasoconstriction, decreased renal perfusion and urine output, poor systemic blood flow despite "normal" blood pressure, tissue hypoxia, and lactate acidosis.
Noradrenaline should also not be given to patients with mesenteric or peripheral vascular thrombosis (because of the risk of increasing ischaemia and extending the area of infarction) unless, in the opinion of the attending physician, the administration of noradrenaline is necessary as a life-saving procedure.
Cyclopropane and halothane anaesthetics increase cardiac autonomic irritability and therefore seem to sensitise the myocardium to the action of intravenously administered adrenaline or noradrenaline. Hence, the use of noradrenaline during cyclopropane and halothane anaesthesia is generally considered contraindicated because of the risk of producing ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation.
The same type of cardiac arrhythmias may result from the use of noradrenaline in patients with profound hypoxia or hypercarbia.