The International Sepsis Forum's controversies in sepsis: My initial vasopressor agent in septic shock is dopamine rather than norepinephrine

Critical Care

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 6-8

  Vincent, Jean Louis ^a   de Backer, Daniel ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM); ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; PROLACTIN; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; DRUG EFFICACY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG EDEMA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE VOLUME; VASOCONSTRICTION;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOPAMINE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LACTIC ACID; NOREPINEPHRINE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0037322403     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc1851     Document Type: Article

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