Understanding the differences among inotropes.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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2. Current Targets and Future Directions of Positive Inotropes for Heart Failure.Current medicinal chemistry · 2024
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3. Management of Acute Heart Failure during an Early Phase.International journal of heart failure · 2020
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4. Acute heart failure.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2020 · on this map
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5. Pulmonary Embolism and Heart Failure: A Reappraisal.Cardiac failure review · 2020
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6. Right Ventricular Failure: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment.Cardiac failure review · 2019
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7. Levosimendan as rescue therapy in low output syndrome after cardiac surgery: effects and predictors of outcome.The Journal of international medical research · 2019
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8. Acute Heart Failure Management.Korean circulation journal · 2018
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9. Optimising Heart Failure Therapies in the Acute Setting.Cardiac failure review · 2018
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10. Scandinavian SSAI clinical practice guideline on choice of inotropic agent for patients with acute circulatory failure.Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2018
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11. Acute heart failure and cardiogenic shock: a multidisciplinary practical guidance.Intensive care medicine · 2016
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12. Understanding the differences among inotropes.Intensive care medicine · 2015
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13. Levosimendan in Right Ventricular Dysfunction.Annals of cardiac anaesthesia
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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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