PRIOSOL WITHOUT POTASSIUM HEMOFILTRATION SOLUTION

Introduction

Package Leaflet: Information for the Patient

Priosol without Potassium Solution for Hemofiltration

Read all of this leaflet carefully before this medicine is administered to you, as it contains important information for you.

• Keep this leaflet, as you may need to read it again.
• If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
• If you experience any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist, even if they are not listed in this leaflet. See section 4.

Contents of the Package Leaflet

1. What Priosol without Potassium is and what it is used for
2. What you need to know before you are given Priosol without Potassium
3. How to use Priosol without Potassium
4. Possible side effects
5. Storage of Priosol without Potassium
6. Package Contents and Further Information

1. What Priosol without Potassium is and what it is used for

Priosol without Potassium is a solution for hemofiltration. It is used in patients with acute renal failure, when the kidneys are not able to remove waste products from the blood. Continuous hemofiltration is a procedure used to remove waste products from the body, which would otherwise be excreted through the kidneys in the urine. The solution corrects the balance of fluids and ensures that, after treatment, the loss of salts (electrolytes) is restored.

2. What you need to know before you are given Priosol without Potassium

Priosol without Potassium must not be administered if:

• you have an abnormally low level of potassium in your blood (hypokalemia)
• your blood contains abnormally low levels of acidic substances (metabolic alkalosis)

The hemofiltration procedure should not be used if you have

• renal failure along with a very high metabolic turnover (hyper-catabolic state), in this situation the accumulation of waste products in your body can no longer be corrected by hemofiltration
• poor blood flow at the site of insertion of the cannula in the vein
• a high risk of bleeding due to the fact that you are receiving medications to prevent blood clotting (systemic anticoagulation).

Warnings and Precautions

Consult your doctor or pharmacist before you are given Priosol without Potassium.

Before and during hemofiltration, your blood pressure and fluid balance, electrolyte balance, acid-base balance, and kidney function will be monitored. Your blood sugar and phosphate levels will be regularly checked.

In addition, your serum potassium concentrations will be monitored before and during hemofiltration.

Using Priosol without Potassium with other Medicines

Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken, or might take any other medicines.

The level of other medicines in your blood may decrease during hemofiltration, which your doctor will take into account.

Interactions with other medicines can be avoided by using the correct dose of the hemofiltration solution and careful monitoring.

The following interactions will be considered:

• Infusions administered in intensive care may change the composition of the blood and its fluid status.
• The toxic effects of certain medicines used to treat heart failure (medicines containing digitalis) may not become apparent if potassium or magnesium levels are too high, or calcium levels are too low. When these levels are corrected by hemofiltration, these toxic effects may appear and cause, for example, heart rhythm abnormalities. If you have low potassium or high calcium levels in your blood, digitalis may produce toxic effects at doses lower than those normally used for treatment.
• Vitamin D and medicines containing calcium may increase the risk of elevated calcium levels in the blood to abnormally high values (hypercalcemia).
• The use of additional sodium hydrogen carbonate may increase the risk of having low levels of acids in the blood (metabolic alkalosis).

Pregnancy, Breast-feeding, and Fertility

If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant, or plan to become pregnant, consult your doctor or pharmacist before you are given this medicine.

There are currently no sufficient data on the use of hemofiltration solutions during pregnancy. However, since all components of this medicine are natural substances that only replace the same substances that are lost from the body during hemofiltration, no risks to the child during pregnancy and breast-feeding, or effects on fertility, are expected.

Driving and Using Machines

This medicine is usually administered to patients who are immobilized in a hospital or dialysis unit, which excludes driving and using machines.

3. How to use Priosol without Potassium

This medicine will only be administered to you under the direction of a doctor with experience in hemofiltration techniques.

Your doctor will decide on the appropriate dose for you, taking into account your clinical condition, body weight, and metabolic condition. Unless otherwise indicated, in patients of any age, a filtration rate of 20-25 ml/kg body weight per hour is recommended for the elimination of substances that are normally excreted in the urine.

The hemofiltration solution will be administered to you via the tubing system of the hemofiltration equipment (extracorporeal circulation) using a perfusion pump.

Treatment of acute renal failure is carried out over a limited period of time and ends when kidney function is fully restored.

If you are given more Priosol without Potassium than recommended

No life-threatening situations have been described after administration of the prescribed dose of this medicine. Administration can be interrupted immediately if necessary.

Unbalanced administration may lead to an excess or deficit of fluid in the body (hyperhydration or dehydration). This situation becomes apparent through changes in blood pressure or pulse.

If too large a volume of the hemofiltration solution is administered, an overdose of sodium hydrogen carbonate may occur. This may result in abnormally low levels of acids in the blood (metabolic alkalosis), a lower amount of dissolved calcium in the blood (decrease in ionized calcium), or muscle cramps (tetany).

An overdose may cause heart failure and/or pulmonary congestion and may disrupt the acid-base and electrolyte balance.

Your doctor will decide on the appropriate treatment.

If you have any further questions on the use of this medicine, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

4. Possible Side Effects

Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

No cases of side effects associated with this medicine have been described to date. However, the following side effects may occur. The frequency of these side effects cannot be estimated from the available data:

Excess or deficit of fluid in the body (hyperhydration or dehydration), abnormal levels of electrolytes, low phosphate levels in the blood (hypophosphatemia), high sugar levels in the blood (hyperglycemia), abnormally low levels of acids in the blood (metabolic alkalosis), high or low blood pressure (hypertension or hypotension), nausea, vomiting, and muscle cramps.

Reporting of Side Effects

If you experience any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist, even if they are not listed in this leaflet. You can also report side effects directly through the national reporting system listed in Annex V. By reporting side effects, you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine.

5. Storage of Priosol without Potassium

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

Do not use this medicine after the expiry date which is stated on the bag and carton after “EXP”. The expiry date is the last day of the month stated.

Storage Conditions

Do not store above 25°C.

Do not refrigerate or freeze.

Storage Conditions after Preparation of the Ready-to-Use Solution

The mixed product should be used immediately. The mixed product is physically and chemically stable for 24 hours at 25°C.

Medicines should not be disposed of via wastewater or household waste. Dispose of the packaging and any unused medicine in the pharmacy’s SIGRE collection point. If you are unsure, ask your pharmacist how to dispose of the packaging and any unused medicine. This will help protect the environment.

6. Package Contents and Further Information

Composition of Priosol without Potassium

Composition of the Ready-to-Use Hemofiltration Solution after Mixing:

1,000 ml of the ready-to-use hemofiltration solution contain [mmol/l]:

Na+ 140

Ca2+ 1.5

Mg2+ 0.5

Cl- 109

HCO3- 35.0

Anhydrous Glucose 5.6 (equiv. to 1.0 g)

Theoretical Osmolality [mOsm/l] 292

pH 7.0-8.0

Other Components are:

Electrolyte Solution (Small Chamber)

25% Hydrochloric Acid (for pH adjustment), Water for Injections

Bicarbonate Solution (Large Chamber)

Carbon Dioxide (for pH adjustment), Water for Injections

Appearance and Package Contents

Hemofiltration Solution.

Clear and colorless solution, free from visible particles.

This medicine is supplied in a two-chamber bag. When the two solutions are mixed by opening the seal between the two chambers, the ready-to-use hemofiltration solution is obtained.

Two bags of 5,000 ml (two-chamber bags, 4,445 ml and 555 ml) per carton.

Marketing Authorization Holder and Manufacturer

Marketing Authorization Holder

• Braun Avitum AG

Schwarzenberger Weg 73-79

34212 Melsungen

Germany

Manufacturer

• Braun Avitum AG

Kattenvenner Str. 32

49219 Glandorf

Germany

This medicine is authorized in the Member States of the European Economic Area under the following names:

Austria, Germany, Luxembourg: Duosol ohne Kalium Hämofiltrationslösung

Bulgaria: ?????? ??? ?????????? ?? ?????, ??????? ?? ?????????????

Croatia: Duosol bez kalija otopina za hemofiltraciju

Czech Republic: Duosol bez kalia

Denmark, Norway, Sweden: Duosol Kaliumfri

Estonia: Duosol ilma kaaliumita hemofiltratsioonilahus

Finland: Duosol sine Kalium hemofiltraationeste

France: Subsol sans potassium, solution pour hémofiltration hémodialyse et hémodiafiltration

Greece: Duosol without Potassium δι?λυμα αιμοδιαδι?θησης

Ireland: Nefrosol solution for haemofiltration

Italy: Duosol senza potassio soluzione per emofiltrazione

Latvia: Duosol bez kalija škidums hemofiltracijai

Lithuania: Duosol K 0 hemofiltracijos tirpalas

Poland: Duosol nie zawierajacy potasu

Portugal: Duosol sem potássio, solução para hemofiltração

Romania: Nefrosol fara potasiu, solutie pentru hemofiltrare

Slovenia: Duosol brez kalija raztopina za hemofiltracijo

Spain: Priosol sin Potasio solución para hemofiltración

Netherlands: Duosol zonder Kalium, oplossing voor hemofiltratie

United Kingdom: Duosol without Potassium solution for haemofiltration

Date of Last Revision of this Leaflet: September 2018

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This information is intended only for healthcare professionals:

Instructions for Preparation of the Ready-to-Use Hemofiltration Solution

The packaging and solution must be visually inspected before use. Only the hemofiltration solutions should be used if the packaging (outer wrapping and two-chamber bag), the peel seal, and the connectors are not damaged and are intact, and if the solution is clear and colorless and free from visible particles.

Remove the outer wrapping only immediately before use.

Administration of the Ready-to-Use Hemofiltration Solution

The hemofiltration solution should be warmed to approximately body temperature using an integrated or external warmer. The solution should not be perfused under any circumstances if it is below ambient temperature.

During the application of this medicine, precipitation of calcium carbonate in the tubes has been observed in rare cases, particularly near the pump unit and the heating unit. Therefore, during hemofiltration, the tubes should be visually inspected every 30 minutes to ensure that the solution in the tubing system is clear and free from precipitates. Precipitation may also occur with a considerable delay after starting treatment. If precipitates are observed, the tubes should be replaced immediately and the patient should be closely monitored.

For single use only. Any remaining fraction of the solution and any damaged packaging should be discarded.