NOUN
- any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure)
How To Use vasopressor In A Sentence
- We conclude that there is no longer a place for low-dose dopamine in the ICU and that, in view of its side effects, its extended use as a vasopressor may also be questioned.
- In this study, abrupt drug withdrawal reinduced norepinephrine dependency in 30% of patients previously weaned from vasopressors.
- Patients with hypotension should be treated more aggressively, with fluids, inotropic agents or vasopressors as indicated to maintain perfusion and prevent extension of the infarct.
- Patients who are being treated with vasopressors should be weaned off the medications if possible.
- Central venous catheters are used for haemodynamic monitoring, giving vasopressors and cytotoxic drugs, sampling blood, and giving fluids and parenteral nutrition.
- In spite of the immediate vasopressor response and the maintenance of the elevated blood pressure for a certain period of time, the end result was always severe injury to the recipient.
- He was admitted to the intensive care unit in septic shock and was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and vasopressors.
- He was admitted to the intensive care unit in septic shock and was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and vasopressors.
- Would decrease mortality among patients with septic shock who were being treated with conventional vasopressor ...