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I am quite confused by this article. I was hoping for some answers on how to manage norepinephrine and epinephrine in septic shock but instead I am left scratching my head wondering what in the world happened here. If you're on my page and following along in on this journey, then you know a thing or two about septic shock patients. This article was supposed to provide us with some data regarding when to start epinephrine on these patients once levophed was already running. Instead, you find a retrospective observational study with a statistically significant difference between the optimal dose group and the non-optimal dose group. Within the subgroup analysis, though, you can find that 83.3% of the optimal dose group was also on vasopressin while 62.3% of the non-optimal group was on vasopressin (p=0.001). Does this mean that there's a dose to start epinephrine when a patient is on norepinephrine, or does this mean that before starting epi, you should have vasopressin on board?
-EJ
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