The effect of dexmedetomidine on vasopressor requirements in patients with septic shock: a subgroup analysis of the Sedation Practice in Intensive Care Evaluation …

L Cioccari, N Luethi, M Bailey, Y Shehabi, B Howe… - Critical care, 2020 - Springer
Background Septic shock is associated with decreased vasopressor responsiveness.
Experimental data suggest that central alpha2-agonists like dexmedetomidine (DEX) …

Clinical practice: should we radically alter our sedation of critical care patients, especially given the COVID-19 pandemics?

D Longrois, F Petitjeans, O Simonet… - Romanian journal of …, 2020 - sciendo.com
The high number of patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus requiring care for ARDS
puts sedation in the critical care unit (CCU) to the edge. Depth of sedation has evolved over …

Selective abolition of Mayer waves in conscious endotoxemic rats

C Julien, B Chapuis, C Barrès - Autonomic Neuroscience, 2020 - Elsevier
The relation between vascular sympathetic tone and the amplitude of arterial pressure (AP)
Mayer waves was examined by analyzing 60-min recordings of AP and renal sympathetic …