The Application of Dopamine Combined with Intravenous Furosemide Infusion Therapy Has an Apparent Clinical Effect in Treating Patients with Heart Failure

OBJECTIVE: To observe the efficacy and safety of dopamine plus furosemide in treating patients with heart failure. METHODS: This research included 150 patients with heart failure who were diagnosed and treated at our hospital between March 2018 and November 2020. The patients were randomly assigned to a study group or a reference group according to the data of admission (the cut-off date was June 2019). Patients in the reference group were given furosemide, whereas those in the study group were given dopamine plus furosemide intravenous pumping. Outcome measures included clinical effectiveness, heart function changes, and adverse responses. RESULTS: Dopamine plus furosemide resulted in higher treatment efficiency (96.00%) versus furosemide (74.67%) study group (P < 0.05). Before therapy, there was no significant change in the scores of cardiac function indices between the two groups (P > 0.05). The cardiac function of the two groups of patients was improved after treatment, and the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of the study group (44.85 ± 4.12) was higher than that of the reference group (38.45 ± 4.36), and the left ventricular end-systolic diameter (LVESD), left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVESD), and plasma N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) (43.17 ± 3.98, 51.32 ± 4.25, 3045.56 ± 365.48) were lower than the reference group (47.56 ± 4.65, 56.28 ± 4.85, 4856.48 ± 395.46) (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in the total incidence of adverse reactions between the two groups (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Dopamine plus intravenous furosemide infusion treatment has an obvious therapeutic benefit in treating patients with heart failure and dramatically enhances cardiac function without noteworthy adverse responses. It demonstrated great potential for clinical promotion.