title: Contraindications - Neonatal Intensive Care Drug Manual
text: Bronchospasm/asthma.
  Allergic disorders which suggest a predisposition to bronchospasm.
  Right ventricular failure secondary to pulmonary hypertension.
  Significant right ventricular hypertrophy.
  Sinus bradycardia.
  Second and third degree atrioventricular block or sick sinus syndrome unless a functioning pacemaker is present.
  Shock, including cardiogenic and hypovolaemic shock.
  Uncontrolled congestive heart failure.
  Severe renal impairment.
  Congenital or acquired long QT syndromes.
  Hypersensitivity to sotalol hydrochloride or the excipients.
  Anaesthesia that produces myocardial depression.
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