Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Apr 1997
Dopexamine improves liver oxygenation during crystalloid resuscitation from experimental hemorrhagic shock.
To evaluate the effects of dopexamine administration on hemodynamic variables and tissue oxygen tensions during crystalloid resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock. ⋯ Dopexamine administration during crystalloid resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock was well tolerated and resulted in significant and specific, although transient, improvement in liver oxygenation.