Epinephrine has been included in resuscitation guidelines worldwide since the 1960s. It is believed that epinephrine increases the chance of restoring a person's heartbeat and improves long-term ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, alternatively known as stress cardiomyopathy, is an increasingly recognized clinical syndrome characterized by acute reversible apical ventricular dysfunction. To elucidate ...

An initial dose of 0.3 mg intramuscular (IM) epinephrine was tied to a greater escalation of care than a dose of 0.5 mg in patients with anaphylaxis, a retrospective single-center study found. The ...

THE pressor effect of a given dose of nor-epinephrine is greater in hypertensive than in normotensive patients. 1,2 A similar increase in the responsiveness to nor-epinephrine has been observed in ...