01.01.2013 | letter to the editor
Concomitant use of beta-1 adrenoreceptor blocker and norepinephrine in patients with septic shock. A letter to the authors
Erschienen in: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift | Ausgabe 1-2/2013
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Balik and colleagues have published an interesting article about the application of esmolol as a selective b1 blocker simultaneous to norepinephrine in septic shock [1]. This “thinking outside the box” is no new consideration in management of critically ill patients. In the late 1960s, Berk published the “b-theory of shock” as an important part in the pathogenesis of shock [2, 3]. …Anzeige