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The following are the citations for my book "The Vasopressor & Inotrope Handbook: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals." If you stumbled upon this page via a search engine, you have several options to get a copy, as shown below the citations. Triposkiadis FK, Butler J, Karayannis G, Starling RC, Filippatos G, Wolski K, Parissis …
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The following are the citations for my book "The Vasopressor & Inotrope Handbook: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals." If you stumbled upon this page via a search engine, you have several options to get a copy, as shown below the citations. Lövgren U, Johansson S, Jensen LS, Ekström C, Carlshaf A. Quantitative determination of …
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The following are the citations for my book "The Vasopressor & Inotrope Handbook: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals." If you stumbled upon this page via a search engine, you have several options to get a copy, as shown below the citations. Vail EA, Gershengorn HB, Hua M, Walkey AJ, Wunsch H. Epidemiology of Vasopressin …
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The following are the citations for my book "The Vasopressor & Inotrope Handbook: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals." If you stumbled upon this page via a search engine, you have several options to get a copy, as shown below the citations. Morelli A, Ertmer C, Rehberg S, Lange M, Orecchioni A, Laderchi A, Bachetoni …
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If you have wondered what I have been doing for the last several months, I am here to answer that I have been working on a book. The book's working title is "The Vasopressor & Inotrope Handbook: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals." Writing this book has been on my to-do list for over four …
The following are the citations for my book "The Vasopressor & Inotrope Handbook: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals." If you stumbled upon this page via a search engine, you have several options to get a copy, as shown below the citations. Scheeren TWL, Bakker J, De Backer D, Annane D, Asfar P, Boerma EC, …
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The following are the citations for my book "The Vasopressor & Inotrope Handbook: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals." If you stumbled upon this page via a search engine, you have several options to get a copy, as shown below the citations. Bernadich C, Bandi JC, Melin P, Bosch J. Effects of F-180, a new …
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Have you tried to use phenobarbital for your ICU patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome?Typically, we use benzodiazepines such as ativan to treat this.Although the empiric data is quite compelling to make the switch.I personally use phenobarbital more often than benzodiazepines these days.The main question of course is the dosing.This single-center, pre-post protocol implementation study is …
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Is red meat actually bad for us?Recently I was at a friends house for dinner.He was told by his physician to cut down on eating red meat.Note that this is a healthy dude in his 30's who was a college athlete.This really upset me as it seemed like the physician likely also promotes the original …
Your patient needs an airway. What is your go-to tool for endotracheal intubation? Do you reach for direct laryngoscopy (DL) and just get it over with? Or do you wait until the whole setup gets brought into the room to attempt a video laryngoscopy (VL)? The debate of DL vs. VL for intubation has persisted …
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