High dose nitroglycerin treatment in a patient with cardiac arrest: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Vasodilators like nitroglycerin or nitroprusside improve hemodynamics in patients with advanced heart failure. However, using these agents in critical conditions is limited because of their ability to decrease systemic blood pressure. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the rapid effect of hi...

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Autores principales: Guglin, Maya, Postler, Gilbert
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830240
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-8782
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description INTRODUCTION: Vasodilators like nitroglycerin or nitroprusside improve hemodynamics in patients with advanced heart failure. However, using these agents in critical conditions is limited because of their ability to decrease systemic blood pressure. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the rapid effect of high dose intravenous nitroglycerin treatment in an 86-year-old man after cardiac arrest and prolonged resuscitation, together with previous observations and a brief review of the literature. CONCLUSION: High dose intravenous nitroglycerin can be beneficial in cardiac arrest.
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spelling pubmed-27378042009-10-14 High dose nitroglycerin treatment in a patient with cardiac arrest: a case report Guglin, Maya Postler, Gilbert J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Vasodilators like nitroglycerin or nitroprusside improve hemodynamics in patients with advanced heart failure. However, using these agents in critical conditions is limited because of their ability to decrease systemic blood pressure. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the rapid effect of high dose intravenous nitroglycerin treatment in an 86-year-old man after cardiac arrest and prolonged resuscitation, together with previous observations and a brief review of the literature. CONCLUSION: High dose intravenous nitroglycerin can be beneficial in cardiac arrest. BioMed Central 2009-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2737804/ /pubmed/19830240 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-8782 Text en Copyright ©2009 licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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High dose nitroglycerin treatment in a patient with cardiac arrest: a case report
title High dose nitroglycerin treatment in a patient with cardiac arrest: a case report
title_full High dose nitroglycerin treatment in a patient with cardiac arrest: a case report
title_fullStr High dose nitroglycerin treatment in a patient with cardiac arrest: a case report
title_full_unstemmed High dose nitroglycerin treatment in a patient with cardiac arrest: a case report
title_short High dose nitroglycerin treatment in a patient with cardiac arrest: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830240
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-8782
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