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ECMO management guided by echo. Is it feasible
ECMO is a mechanical support for respiratory and cardiocirculatory failures. Echocardiography is fundamental tool to assess the functioning of ECM
Does levosimendan improve weaning outcome? It does much more
levosimendan was introduced into clini
cal practice about twenty years ago for the
treatment of heart failure. levosimendan imme
diately proved to be an excellent drug with an
innovative and highly physiological mechanism
of action. on the one hand, its inotropic action is
achieved with a mechanism different from that of
catecholaminergic drugs and phosphodiesterase
inhibitors, on the other, a marked peripheral va
sodilating action favors the reduction of afterload
and therefore improves peripheral perfusion.1
From the first experimental studies, there was a
marked activity on the KatP channel favorable
to the modulation of the intracellular and intra
mitochondrial calcium input capable of justify
ing a cardiac and extracardiac protective effect.
How to evaluate regional myocardial function during anesthesia? Measuring the strain rate is possible although difficult
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[Prolonged neuromuscular block caused by succinylcholine in a patient with normal cholinesterase activity]
Levosimendan in Sepsis.
Commentum to "Levosimendan for the Prevention of Acute Organ Dysfunction in Sepsis
Are there real or semantic differences between thromboelastography and thromboelastometry?
Thromboelastography and Trhomboelastometry are confronted to define characteristics and utility in different settin
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