The role of vasoactive agents in the resuscitation of microvascular perfusion and tissue oxygenation in critically ill patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2004-2018

  Boerma, E Christiaan ^a,b   Ince, Can ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microcirculation; Organ perfusion; Oxygenation; Shock; Vasoactive; Vasomotor tone

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ARGIPRESSIN; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; DOPEXAMINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; KETANSERIN; LEVOSIMENDAN; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; PLACEBO; PROSTACYCLIN; TERLIPRESSIN;

AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYE DILUTION CURVE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PERFUSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DEFECT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TONGUE DISEASE; TONOMETRY;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 78649327189     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-1970-x     Document Type: Review

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