Increasing arterial blood pressure with norepinephrine does not improve microcirculatory blood flow: a prospective study
Open Access
- 17 June 2009
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Critical Care
- Vol. 13 (3), R92
- https://doi.org/10.1186/cc7922
Abstract
Our goal was to assess the effects of titration of a norepinephrine infusion to increasing levels of mean arterial pressure (MAP) on sublingual microcirculation.Keywords
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