Tag Kenneth J. Tuman

Uses Prescribed mainly as nasal decongestant or ophthalmically for treatment of mydriasis, capillary decongestion. Reliable vasopressor in treatment of hypotension. Used in obstetric anesthesia for hypotension after spinal. More effective as a prophylactic infusion than bolus doses. Prolongs local anesthetic…

Risk Structural heart disease (most commonly a chronic phase of MI); predictor of sudden cardiac death after MI. Most common cause of mortality with CHF. Cardiomyopathies, both hypertrophic and dilated, are assoc with VTach. Seen in genetic syndromes such as…