AMSTERDAM — Is it twilight for positive inotropic agents for acute heart failure and their daunting risks? Not necessarily, but an investigational drug that increases stroke volume apparently without ...
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 ...
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 ...
VOL: 97, ISSUE: 17, PAGE NO: 36 Mandy Sheppard, RGN, is an independent training and development consultant The key function of the heart is to pump oxygenated blood from the lungs to all the body ...