Nebulized milrinone use in a pulmonary hypertensive crisis

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 27, Issue 12 I, 2007, Pages 1763-1766

  Buckley, Mitchell S ^a   Feldman, Jeremy P ^b  

^a ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Arizona Pulmonary Specialists Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Drug information; Milrinone; PAH; Pulmonary; Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOBUTAMINE; MILRINONE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTANOID; SILDENAFIL; UNIPROST; VASOPRESSIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SALVAGE THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPOPROSTENOL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MILRINONE; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 36849003385     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1592/phco.27.12.1763     Document Type: Article

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