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Vasopressin in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit: Myth or reality

Pediatric cardiac surgery is undergoing a metamorphosis, with more and more critical patients being operated in our country today. Although the principles of physiology have not changed, it is imperative that care providers continue to stay abreast with developments and newer drugs that may help mod...

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Autores principales: Singh, Vishal K, Sharma, Rajesh, Agrawal, Amit, Varma, Amit
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300273
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.52814
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description Pediatric cardiac surgery is undergoing a metamorphosis, with more and more critical patients being operated in our country today. Although the principles of physiology have not changed, it is imperative that care providers continue to stay abreast with developments and newer drugs that may help modify the outcome. The team dynamics have also become more complex, which necessitates the need for all care providers (surgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, and intensivists) to better understand the interactions and benefits of newer drugs. Vasopressin has been used in our adult patients for more than a decade and recently has found its rightful place in the pediatric armoury. The objective of this article is to review the physiology of vasopressin and the rationale of its use in critically ill children with shock, in context of the available published data.
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spelling pubmed-28407752010-03-18 Vasopressin in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit: Myth or reality Singh, Vishal K Sharma, Rajesh Agrawal, Amit Varma, Amit Ann Pediatr Cardiol Review Article Pediatric cardiac surgery is undergoing a metamorphosis, with more and more critical patients being operated in our country today. Although the principles of physiology have not changed, it is imperative that care providers continue to stay abreast with developments and newer drugs that may help modify the outcome. The team dynamics have also become more complex, which necessitates the need for all care providers (surgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, and intensivists) to better understand the interactions and benefits of newer drugs. Vasopressin has been used in our adult patients for more than a decade and recently has found its rightful place in the pediatric armoury. The objective of this article is to review the physiology of vasopressin and the rationale of its use in critically ill children with shock, in context of the available published data. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2840775/ /pubmed/20300273 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.52814 Text en © Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_sort vasopressin in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit: myth or reality
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840775/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.52814
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