vasopressors in ICU

• related: ICU intensive care unit, shock in icu
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• vasactive agents primarily target a1

• A2 secreted by adrenal gland

• Andromeda-SHOCK showed first 8 hours of shock is when improvement happens
• Norepinephrine is good first line shock treatment
• vitamin C leads to worse outcome in septic shock

Literature Notes

• push dose epinephrine
• VAST trial shows no mortality benefit for vasopressin
• Angiotensin II for the Treatment of Vasodilatory Shock by ATHOS-3 trial

Links to this note

• ICU intensive care unit

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• Cardiology

  • vasopressors in ICU

• shock in icu

  • vasopressors in ICU

• septic shock

  • vasopressors in ICU

• Norepinephrine is good first line shock treatment

  • related: shock in icu, vasopressors in ICU

• push dose epinephrine

  • related: vasopressors in ICU

• cardiology with critical care

  • vasopressors in ICU

Footnotes

1. https://emcrit.org/ibcc/shock/#considerations_when_selecting_a_vasopressor ↩