Use of dopamine infusion improved oxygenation in a patient of Ebstein's anomaly with atrial septal defect
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Published on: July 18, 2014
Mukul C Kapoor1, Pramil Kumar, Priyadarshani Chakravarti
1Department of Anesthesiology, Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Abstract:
We present the successful perioperative management of an adult patient with Ebstein's anomaly for abdominal rectopexy surgery. The patient developed mild hypotension and a fall in peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ) after administration of a graded epidural block. Correction of the fall in the blood pressure; however, did not improve the SpO 2 . The patient was administered an intravenous infusion of dopamine to improve the cardiac output and this led to improvement in the SpO 2 .

