BANNOCKBURN, Ill., May 16, 2018 – Survival may improve when advanced heart failure patients receiving home infusion of inotropic therapy are also receiving guideline-directed care, suggest results of ...

April 8, 2008 (Chicago, IL) - Given the short list of effective and bone fide safe intravenous drugs available for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), it's welcome news that the inotrope ...

Do you have a maximum dose for inotropes (eg, 2 mcg/kg/min for noradrenaline)? Also, if you have invasive monitoring for a septic patient, eg, pulmonary artery (PA) catheter, would you push up your ...

French centers tested the calcium-sensitizing inotrope levosimendan in patients with severe but potentially reversible cardiogenic shock recently put on VA-ECMO. Early levosimendan did not facilitate ...

Against expectations, critically ill people in cardiogenic shock fared similarly receiving one widely used inotrope or another in the small DOREMI trial. Patients had the same clinical outcomes on ...

Background: Low systemic blood flow as measured by superior vena cava (SVC) flow is common in very preterm infants. It is strongly associated with IVH and disability and may be caused by poor cardiac ...

Background and aims: Variations in inotrope changeover technique can contribute to deviations in blood pressure, heart rate, internal bleeding and in extremis, death (Sheppard, 2001; Crisp, 2002; ...