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sodium zirconium cyclosilicate 5000 MG Powder for Oral Suspension [Lokelma]

Dosage and administration

Recommended starting dose is 10 g administered three times a day for up to 48 hours.

For maintenance treatment, recommended dose is 10 g once daily. Adjust dose at one-week intervals as needed (by 5 g daily) to obtain desired serum potassium target range. Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis

Recommended starting dose is 5 g once daily on non-dialysis days. See full Prescribing Information for additional dosing instructions, as well as reconstitution and administration instructions for the oral suspension.

2.1 Recommended

Dosage For initial treatment of hyperkalemia, the recommended dose of LOKELMA is 10 g administered three times a day for up to 48 hours. Administer LOKELMA orally as a suspension in water. For continued treatment, the recommended dose is 10 g once daily. Monitor serum potassium and adjust the dose of LOKELMA based on the serum potassium level and desired target range. During maintenance treatment, up-titrate based on the serum potassium level at intervals of 1-week or longer and in increments of 5 g. Decrease the dose of LOKELMA or discontinue if the serum potassium is below the desired target range. The recommended maintenance dose range is from 5 g every other day to 15 g daily.

2.2 Dosage Adjustment for

Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis For patients on chronic hemodialysis, administer LOKELMA only on non-dialysis days. The recommended starting dose is 5 g once daily on non-dialysis days. Consider a starting dose of 10 g once daily on non-dialysis days in patients with serum potassium greater than 6.5 mEq/L. Monitor serum potassium and adjust the dose of LOKELMA based on the pre-dialysis serum potassium value after the long inter-dialytic interval and desired target range. During initiation and after a dose adjustment, assess serum potassium after one week. The recommended maintenance dose range is from 5 g to 15 g once daily, on non-dialysis days. Discontinue or decrease the dose of LOKELMA if:

serum potassium falls below the desired target range based on the pre-dialysis value after the long interdialytic interval, or;

the patient develops clinically significant hypokalemia

2.3 Reconstitution and

Administration In general, other oral medications should be administered at least 2 hours before or 2 hours after LOKELMA. Instruct patients to empty the entire contents of the packet(s) into a drinking glass containing approximately 3 tablespoons of water or more if desired. Stir well and drink immediately. If powder remains in the drinking glass, add water, stir and drink immediately. Repeat until no powder remains to ensure the entire dose is taken.

Text above is quoted in full from the FDA-approved drug label published by openFDA, effective May 31, 2023. Matched to this product by RxNorm code. Cross-references to other sections of the full prescribing information have been removed, since they point to a document not shown here. Nothing else is changed: no sentence is shortened, reworded or summarised.

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