Patient was educated on how to take Sotalol as follows:
- Take the medication at the same time every day, to avoid forgetting the medication.
- Maintain strict compliance with intake of the medication as ordered, with regards to dosage and frequency, to derive the benefit of the medication.
- Do not change the dose on this medication without consulting your doctor.
- Take a blood pressure and heart rate reading always before you take the pill. Maintain a log of every day blood pressure and heart rate readings.
- If the heart rate is being too low, notify your doctor immediately about it.
- Also, notify your doctor, if you continue to experience symptoms of arrhythmias, such as, rapid heart rate, fluttering in the chest, shortness of breath, dizziness, and episodes of loss of consciousness.
- Inform your doctor, if you experience any sudden exacerbation of symptoms of shortness of breath, bronchoconstriction, and dyspnea.
- If a dose is missed, it should be taken at the earliest notice of noncompliance. If it is time for the next dose, the missed dose can be skipped. Compensating for the missed dose by taking an extra dose can pose serious risk for an episode of extremely low heart rate and even, a heart block in extreme cases.
