EGDT gained global adoption after 2001, but later trials showed no survival benefit, exposing its flaws, risks, and poor ...

Continuous intravenous inotropic support (CIIS) can improve symptoms and functional status for patients with stage D heart failure (HF), but characteristics and outcomes of large cohorts treated with ...

Because glucagon in animals has positive inotropic and chronotropic effects in the presence of beta-adrenergic blockade, catecholamine depletion or full digitalization, its cardiovascular effects in ...

1. Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA 2. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA 3. Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland ...

Abstract: Inotropes are critical care medications essential for maintaining normal blood pressure (BP) in hospitalized patients. Titrating infusion rates of inotropes such as noradrenaline, ...

Many pharmacological effects have been ascribed to extracts of Psidium guajava L. (guava) leaves. However, in spite of its widespread use in Brazilian folk medicine and a reasonable number of ...

Heart pump medication, also called inotropic therapy, makes an injured or weakened heart pump harder. It's used to make the heart muscle's contractions stronger. It may also speed the heart's rhythm.

Abstract: In this paper we report a scoring system to predict whether a patient intoxicated with cardiotoxic substances will require vasopressor inotropic support (VIS) during hospitalization. This ...

Disopyramide is a class IA antiarrhythmic drug which acts via blockade of sodium channels depressing phase 0 of the action potential. Disopyramide possesses significant negative inotropic and ...