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; ...

Inotrope infusions are commonly used in paediatric intensive care units to achieve cardiovascular stability in critically ill patients. These infusions are administered as a continuous infusion and ...

Reduction in the frequency of hospitalizations, by delaying additional episodes of acute decompensated heart failure; and Weaning patients with severe heart failure who are currently dependent on ...

BANNOCKBURN, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Survival may improve when advanced heart failure patients receiving home infusion of inotropic therapy are also receiving guideline-directed care, suggest results ...

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 ...