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Inotropes Are Linked To Increased Mortality In Heart Failure, M. Chadi Alraies, Bill Tran, Sirtaz Adatya
Inotropes Are Linked To Increased Mortality In Heart Failure, M. Chadi Alraies, Bill Tran, Sirtaz Adatya
The VAD Journal
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Inotropes Are Not Linked To Increased Mortality In Heart Failure, Maya Guglin
Inotropes Are Not Linked To Increased Mortality In Heart Failure, Maya Guglin
The VAD Journal
How to use inotropes is one of the most controversial topics in the management of heart failure. While most clinicians use these drugs, and recognize the state of inotrope dependency, current guidelines recommend them onlu as a bridge or palliation. Thus, inotropes are considered either neutral or detrimental in terms of outcomes. Meanwhile, properly designed randomized clinical trials testing the outcomes on inotropes, have never been performed and it is unlikely that they will ever be attempted. These trials would require randomizing patients with advanced heart failure, low output syndrome, and impaired end-organ perfusion into groups that received or not …