Amiodarone is used to treat heart arrhythmias. An arrhythmia is an irregularity in your heartbeat which causes your heart to miss a beat, beat irregularly or beat at the wrong speed. Amiodarone is particularly helpful when other medicines used for the treatment of arrhythmias are unsuitable for some reason.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/medicine/amiodarone-for-irregular-heartbeats-cordarone-x