Rescue therapy in septic shock – is terlipressin the last frontier?
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* Corresponding author: Claude Martin claude.martin@mail.ap-hm.fr
Intensive Care Unit and Trauma Center, Nord University Hospital, Marseilles School of Medicine, Marseilles, France
Critical Care 2006, 10:131 doi:10.1186/cc4863
Published: 21 March 2006Abstract
Use of terlipressin, an analogue of vasopressin, can be considered in septic shock patients with intractable hypotension and high cardiac output in whom fluid resuscitation and high-dose conventional catecholamines have failed. The effects of this agent on organ function are poorly evaluated in humans. The limited number of patients evaluated precludes any analysis of adverse outcomes and prognosis.