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Study design: Letter. Intervention: Phenylephrine.

April 7, 2017European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Phenylephrine and cardiac output

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This letter to the editor questions the physiological explanations and methodology, specifically the accuracy of oesophageal Doppler, in a previous study on phenylephrine and preload dependency.

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SGSimon GelmanHackensack University Medical Center RPReuven PizovHadassah Medical Center

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This letter to the editor critiques a prior study's physiological explanations and measurement techniques regarding the hemodynamic response to phenylephrine.

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Phenylephrine (50 to 150 μg)

This letter to the editor critiques a prior study's physiological explanations and measurement techniques regarding the hemodynamic response to phenylephrine.

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The graphs are hypothetical, they are not constructed on actual data
Inaccuracy of the oesophageal Doppler method in determining cardiac output during phenylephrine therapy

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Gelman et al. (2017) reported a letter. Phenylephrine was evaluated. This letter to the editor questions the physiological explanations and methodology, specifically the accuracy of oesophageal Doppler, in a previous study on phenylephrine and preload dependency.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a75f00267b8a7e548707231 https://doi.org/10.1097/eja.0000000000000591

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This letter to the editor critiques a prior study's physiological explanations and measurement techniques regarding the hemodynamic response to phenylephrine.

Phenylephrine and cardiac output

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Phenylephrine and cardiac output

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