• Oxygenation failure, pulmonary hypertension and refractory systemic hypotension in infants with diaphragmatic hernia are managed by ventilation and conventional inotropes (dobutamine and dopamine). (monash.edu)
  • In spite of dopamine (15 µg/kg/min), dobutamine (15µg/kg/min) and adrenalin (1mg/h) infusions, myocardium failed to maintain normotension. (ispub.com)
  • Six hours later we started to reduce the analogous inotropic support (dopamine 10µg/kg/min, dobutamine 10µg/kg/min, adrenalin 0.5mg/h) since the hemodynamic parameters were satisfactory. (ispub.com)
  • Effects of dopamine, dobutamine, and dopexamine on microcirculatory blood flow in the gastrointestinal tract during sepsis and anesthesia. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The infant was administered intravenous vasopressin infusion for severe pulmonary hypertension that needed inhaled nitric oxide and for systemic hypotension that needed multiple inotropes under close echocardiographic monitoring. (monash.edu)
  • Home infusion specializes in providing the highest quality pharmaceuticals and related services in the home. (lluh.org)
  • Our pharmacists and technicians have extensive experience in home IV infusion therapies with both adult and pediatric patients. (lluh.org)
  • It is administered by intravenous infusion. (drugs.com)
  • Cardiac output was elevated during dobutamine infusion (16 μg · kg -1 · min -1 ) and decreased during esmolol infusion (50, 75 · kg -1 · min -1 ). (johnshopkins.edu)
  • Specialized infusion therapy includes Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy (IVIG) and Inotropic Infusion Therapy. (megotheater.com)
  • It is given as an intravenous (into a vein) infusion over 20 to 30 minutes. (pocketpills.com)
  • Then dobutamine is given to you as an intravenous infusion in to the arm. (padgaonkarsheartclinic.com)
  • Intravenous Adenosine and LexiScan are drugs designed to dilate your blood vessels. (harmonyheartgroup.com)
  • At admission to The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, he had sepsis, hypotension, and leukocytosis and immediately received norepinephrine intravenous pumping, endotracheal intubation, sedation, mechanical ventilation, and continuous renal replacement therapy. (cdc.gov)
  • These agents are used in resistant cases as intravenous infusions and stimulate beta1-adrenergic receptors in the myocardium. (medscape.com)
  • Dobutamine stress echocardiography ischemia as a predictor of the placebo-controlled efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention in stable coronary artery disease: the stress echocardiography-stratified analysis of ORBITA. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Intravenous fluids, oxygen, and sometimes drugs are given to help restore the blood pressure. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Patients are placed in the intensive care unit (ICU) and supported with mechanical ventilators (breathing machines) and intravenous fluids such as saline (salt water), blood, or drugs such as dobutamine to improve heart function or diuretics to increase fluid output. (nih.gov)
  • In animal studies, dobutamine produces less increase in heart rate and less decrease in peripheral vascular resistance for a given inotropic effect than does isoproterenol. (drugs.com)
  • In patients with depressed cardiac function, both dobutamine and isoproterenol increase the cardiac output to a similar degree. (drugs.com)
  • Dobutamine in 5% Dextrose Injection, USP is a sterile, nonpyrogenic, prediluted solution of dobutamine hydrochloride and dextrose in water for injection. (drugs.com)
  • Dobutamine in 5% Dextrose Injection, USP is oxygen sensitive. (drugs.com)
  • Lexiscan or Adenoscan are administered by intravenous injection during a cardiac nuclear stress test to patients who cannot adequately exercise. (fda.gov)
  • CARDATEN Injection is administered by the intravenous route. (sgpharma.com)
  • Awake hamsters were submitted to endotoxemia with intravenous injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the dose of 2 mg/kg. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Moreover, bilateral intra-vBNST injection of the β-2 AR agonist, clenbuterol, but not the β-1 agonist, dobutamine, reinstated cocaine seeking, suggesting that activation of vBNST β-2 AR is both necessary for stress-induced reinstatement and sufficient to induce cocaine seeking. (marquette.edu)
  • Early administration of intravenous antibiotics is the mainstay of treatment. (hdkino.org)
  • The aim of this study was to discover if the forced inspired inert gas sinewave technique could be used to measure pulmonary blood flow, using nitrous oxide as the indicator gas, following inotropic stimulation of the heart by dobutamine, in the presence of a constant alveolar ventilation. (southwales.ac.uk)
  • If you are not able to exercise, you will get a drug, such as dobutamine, through a vein (intravenous line). (medlineplus.gov)
  • Dobutamine stress echocardiogram is a noninvasive stress test reserved for individuals unable to exercise. (ufhealthjax.org)
  • Cardiac output was increased twofold when enough intravenous nitroprusside or nitroglycerine was injected to decrease mean arterial pressure from 90 to 70 mmHg. (johnshopkins.edu)
  • Mathematical modelling of intravenous thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke: effects of dose regimens on levels of fibrinolytic proteins and clot lysis time. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Over 85 % of an intravenous dose is excreted in urine within 24 hours compared with approximately 50 % for an oral dose. (sgpharma.com)
  • Microcirculatory, leucocyte/endothelium interaction and survival time effects of dobutamine in the dose of 5 μg/kg/minute associated or not with volume resuscitation were studied in the hamster window chamber model during resuscitation from nonhypotensive endotoxemia [ 1 , 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Dobuta/VR (n = 6): resuscitated with 40 ml/kg body weight of NaCl 0.9% in the first hour followed by 20 ml/kg body weight during the remaining 2 hours, the last combined with dobutamine in the dose of 5 μg/kg/minute. (biomedcentral.com)
  • They are also useful for periodic home inotropic therapy in end-stage disease, in which cardiac transplant is not feasible, to improve the quality of life. (medscape.com)
  • Currently, dozens of drugs are available to treat or manage heart failure symptoms, but drugs that improve the strength of the heart muscle's contractions, such as dobutamine, carry the risk of dangerous complications such as developing an irregular heartbeat. (news-medical.net)
  • Tell your healthcare providers about any dietary supplements you're taking, such as herbs, vitamins, minerals, and natural or home remedies. (mskcc.org)
  • Let's confine our discussion to people without symptoms, meaning people like you and me sitting at home, not in an emergency room having chest pain or other similar acute symptomatic presentation. (undoctored.com)
  • Systemic vascular resistance is usually decreased with administration of dobutamine. (drugs.com)
  • Following intravenous administration, peak plasma levels are reached within 5 minutes. (sgpharma.com)
  • Here we demonstrate that, in the vBNST, corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) is expressed in neurons that innervate the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a site where the CRF receptor antagonist antalarmin prevents the reinstatement of cocaine seeking by a stressor, intermittent footshock, following intravenous self-administration in rats. (marquette.edu)
  • Dobutamine is a direct-acting inotropic agent whose primary activity results from stimulation of the β-receptors of the heart while producing comparatively mild chronotropic, hypertensive, arrhythmogenic, and vasodilative effects. (drugs.com)
  • In the case of dobutamine, this increase is usually not accompanied by marked increases in heart rate (although tachycardia is occasionally observed), and the cardiac stroke volume is usually increased. (drugs.com)
  • A medication called Dobutamine is administered through an intravenous line to raise the heart rate to the level required with constant monitoring of the heart on EKG and getting serial echocardiographic images to understand the heart response to stress. (ufhealthjax.org)
  • The patient has an IV (intravenous) line placed in the arm, EKG patches are applied to chest and connected to an EKG machine to monitor the heart. (definithing.com)
  • CT heart scans are not to be confused with now more popular CT coronary angiograms, which are performed on the same devices but require intravenous x-ray dye and many times more radiation. (undoctored.com)
  • All patients discharged home should be instructed to return to hospital if they develop any worsening of illness. (who.int)
  • Most clinical experience with dobutamine is short-term, not more than several hours in duration. (drugs.com)
  • Dobutamine associated or not with volume resuscitation did not improve microcirculatory parameters, leucocyte adhesion or survival time during resuscitation from nonhypotensive endotoxemia while volume resuscitation restored microcirculatory parameters and improved survival time. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Lahey Hospital & Medical Center offers nationally-recognized, award-winning hospitals and physicians close to home. (lahey.org)
  • Dobutamine maintains intestinal villus blood flow during normotensive endotoxemia: an intravital microscopic study in the rat. (biomedcentral.com)