High-dose vasopressin is not superior to norepinephrine in septic shock

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2646-2650

  Klinzing, Stefan ^a   Simon, Mark ^a   Reinhart, Konrad ^a   Bredle, Donald L ^b   Meier Hellmann, Andreas ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^c HELIOS KLINIKUM ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastric regional carbon dioxide; Hemodynamics; Hepatovenous blood flow; Septic shock; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; NORADRENALIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; THERMODILUTION; TONOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRCULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; RENAL AGENTS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0345107246     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000094260.05266.F4     Document Type: Article

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