Patients taking beta-blockers should not be administered intravenously blockers of "slow" calcium channels such as verapamil.
Monitoring the condition of patients taking beta-blockers includes regular monitoring of heart rate (heart rate) and blood pressure, blood glucose concentration in patients with diabetes mellitus.
If necessary, for patients with diabetes, the dose of insulin or hypoglycemic drugs administered orally should be selected individually.
It is necessary to teach the patient how to calculate heart rate and instruct about the need for medical consultation at heart rate less than 50 beats per minute.
When taking a dose above 200 mg per day, cardioselectivity decreases.
With heart failure, metoprolol treatment is started only after reaching the compensation stage.
Patients with Prinzmetal angina are not recommended to prescribe non-selective beta-blockers.
It is possible to intensify the severity of hypersensitivity reactions (against the background of a weighed allergic anamnesis) and the absence of the effect of the administration of usual doses of epinephrine (adrenaline).
In patients taking beta-adrenoblockers, anaphylactic shock occurs in a more severe form.
It can intensify the symptoms of peripheral arterial circulation.
Cancellation of the drug is carried out gradually, reducing the dose for 14 days. With a sharp cessation of treatment, there may be a "cancellation" syndrome (an increase in angina attacks, an increase in blood pressure). Particular attention should be paid to patients with angina when the drug is withdrawn.
With angina pectoris, the selected dose of the drug should provide a heart rate at rest in the range of 55-60 beats / min, with a load - no more than 110 beats / min.
Patients who use contact lenses should take into account that against the background of treatment with beta-adrenoblockers, tear production can be reduced.
Metoprolol may mask certain clinical manifestations of hyperthyroidism (eg, tachycardia). Sharp abolition in patients with thyrotoxicosis is contraindicated, as it can strengthen symptoms.
In diabetes mellitus can mask tachycardia caused by hypoglycemia. In contrast to nonselective beta-blockers, it does not actually increase insulin-inducedhypoglycemia and does not delay the restoration of blood glucose to normal levels.
If it is necessary to appoint patients with bronchial asthma as a concomitant therapy, therapy should be prescribed beta2-adrenomimetic. It is necessary to prescribe a minimally effective dose of metoprolol, and an increase in dose may be required beta2-adrenomimetics.
Patients with pheochromocytoma, in parallel with the drug Metoprolol, it is necessary to appoint an alpha-blocker.
If it is necessary to perform a surgical procedure, it is necessary to warn the anesthesia doctor about the therapy (choice of a means for general anesthesia with minimal negative inotropic action), the drug cancellation is not recommended.
It should avoid the appointment of high doses of metoprolol immediately without prior titration to patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery, as in patients with cardiovascular risk factors it was associated with bradycardia, arterial hypotension and stroke, including fatalities.
Drugs that reduce catecholamine stocks (for example, reserpine), can enhance the action of beta-blockers, so patients taking such combinations of drugs should be under constant observation of the doctor for the detection of excessive reduction in blood pressure or bradycardia.
In elderly patients, it is recommended to regularly monitor liver function.
Correction of the dosing regimen is required only if older bradycardia develops in the elderly (less than 50 beats per minute), a marked decrease in blood pressure (systolic blood pressure below 100 mm Hg), atrioventricular blockade, bronchospasm, ventricular arrhythmias, severe liver function disorders . Sometimes it is necessary to stop treatment.
Patients with severe renal insufficiency are advised to exercise control.
Special monitoring of the condition of patients with depressive disorders taking Metoprolol; In the case of depression, caused by the use of beta-blockers, it is recommended to stop therapy.