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Vaptans and hyponatremia in critical patients
(2012)
Hyponatremia is the most frequent fluid and electrolyte disorder in hospitalized patients (20%), particularly in ICU, associated with an increase in morbility and mortality. While hypovolaemic hyponatremia needs to be ...
Dopamine use in intensive care: are we ready to turn it down?
(2012)
Dopamine is still frequently used as a first line
vasopressor agent in hypotensive patients, when physicians
are afraid of noradrenaline and believe that dopamine, with
its β and α, inotrope and vasopressor effects, may ...
Effect of α2-adrenergic agonists and antagonists on cytokine release from human lung macrophages cultured in vitro
(2016)
The most trusted hypothesis to explain
how α2-adrenergic agonists may preserve pulmonary
functions in critically ill patients is that they directly
act on macrophages by interfering with an
autocrine/paracrine adrenergic ...