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Intraoperative use of inhaled PGI(2) for acute pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure
R A Schroeder1, G L Wood, J S Plotkin
1Department of Anesthesia, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20889, USA. bekkuo@yahoo.com
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|July 27, 2000
Abstract:
Inhaled prostacyclin (PGI(2)) can be used as an effective pulmonary vasodilator intraoperatively to treat pulmonary hypertension and impending right ventricular failure.