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The pharmacotherapy of septic shock
J L Boyd1, G G Stanford, B Chernow
1Department of Anaesthesia, Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Critical Care Clinics
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Septic shock is a common clinical problem in the intensive care setting. The high mortality rate associated with septic shock, regardless of age, reflects the inadequacy of available therapeutic approaches. The purpose of this article is to review the current pharmacologic approaches to the treatment of septic shock with an emphasis on the pathophysiologic correlations of these treatments.