Patent ID: 9687526
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: A61K

Claim:
1. A method of increasing blood pressure in a human in need thereof, the method comprising: a) providing a pharmaceutical composition for intravenous administration comprising: i) from about 0.01 mg/mL to about 0.07 mg/mL of vasopressin or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof; ii) acetic acid; and iii) water, wherein the pharmaceutical composition has a pH of 3.8; b) storing the pharmaceutical composition at 2-8° C. for at least 4 weeks; and c) intravenously administering the pharmaceutical composition to the human, wherein the administration provides to the human from about 0.01 units of vasopressin or the pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof per minute to about 0.1 units of vasopressin or the pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof per minute, wherein the human is hypotensive, wherein the pharmaceutical composition exhibits less than about 5% degradation after storage at 2-8° C. for about four weeks.