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Brand-name prescription medicine

Nexterone

Generic name: Amiodarone hydrochloride

FDA application holder: Baxter Hlthcare

Official data, not advice

Everything here comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): the NDC Directory, Drugs@FDA, the official labels and recall reports; pharmacy costs come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Each fact shows its source and date.

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Quick answers

What is Nexterone?
Nexterone is a brand name of Amiodarone hydrochloride, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 2 Nexterone products in 2 strengths and forms.
Who makes Nexterone?
Baxter Hlthcare holds the FDA application for Nexterone (NDA022325, approved December 24, 2008).
Is there a generic or store brand of Nexterone?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 2 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Nexterone product. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Nexterone been recalled?
FDA enforcement reports list 2 recalls of Nexterone products; the newest started August 6, 2026. A recall usually concerns specific lots, not every product.

What Nexterone is

Each Nexterone product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Amiodarone hydrochloride · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
amiodarone hydrochloride 1.5 mg/mL
injection, solution (intravenous)
Nexterone 1 product, 1 company DailyMed
amiodarone hydrochloride 1.8 mg/mL
injection, solution (intravenous)
Nexterone 1 product, 1 company DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Amiodarone hydrochloride →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Nexterone products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA022325Baxter HlthcareDecember 24, 20082

Companies that list Nexterone

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Nexterone products.

Recalls

From FDA enforcement reports, matched by the product’s NDC code or label. A recall usually covers specific lots: check the lot number on your package and ask your pharmacist. Do not stop a medicine on your own.

  1. August 6, 2026 · Class II · Ongoing · D-0814-2026

    CGMP Deviations

    Nexterone (amiodarone HCI), 360 mg/200 mL (1.8 mg/mL) in GALAXY Single-Dose Container, sterile, Nonpyrogenic, iso-osmotic solution in Dextrose, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Deerfield, IL 60015, Made in the USA, NDC 430 — Baxter Healthcare Corporation

  2. November 10, 2017 · Class I · Terminated · D-0573-2018

    Presence of Particulate Matter:Particulate identified as polyethylene, the primary constituent of the film and ports used to manufacture the bag in which product is packaged

    Nexterone (amiodarone HCl) Premixed Injection, 150mg/100mL, 100-mL bag, Rx Only, Sterile, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Deerfield, IL. NDC 43066-150-10 — Baxter Healthcare Corporation

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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