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Current Concepts in the Pharmacologic Approach to Shock

Authors: WALTER J. O'DONOHUE JR. MD

Abstract

The more recent approach to the treatment of shock is to reduce vasoconstriction and thereby to restore perfusion of tissues at the cellular level. Thus, symptomatic treatment and maintenance of blood pressure are of a more secondary importance.

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