Intractable hypotension in septic shock: Successful treatment with vasopressin in an infant

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 596-598

  Leibovitch, Leah ^a,b   Efrati, Ori ^a,b   Vardi, Amir ^a,b   Matok, Ilan ^a,b   Barzilay, Zohar ^a,b   Paret, Gideon ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Hypotension; Septic shock; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; INOTROPIC AGENT; MEROPENEM; MILRINONE; VANCOMYCIN; VASOACTIVE AGENT; VASOPRESSIN;

ANURIA; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXTUBATION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG ARTERY BANDING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEPTIC SHOCK; TACHYCARDIA; THERAPY RESISTANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0041564141     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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