Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jun 2018
Review Meta AnalysisEpinephrine and short-term survival in cardiogenic shock: an individual data meta-analysis of 2583 patients.
Catecholamines have been the mainstay of pharmacological treatment of cardiogenic shock (CS). Recently, use of epinephrine has been associated with detrimental outcomes. In the present study we aimed to evaluate the association between epinephrine use and short-term mortality in all-cause CS patients. ⋯ In this very large cohort, epinephrine use for hemodynamic management of CS patients is associated with a threefold increase of risk of death.