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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

Is the Sympathetic System Detrimental in the Setting of Septic Shock, with Antihypertensive Agents as a Counterintuitive Approach? A Clinical Proposition.

Fabrice Petitjeans, Alain Geloen, Cyrille Pichot, Sandrine Leroy, Marco Ghignone, Luc Quintin

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Fabrice PetitjeansCritical Care, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Desgenettes, 69003 Lyon, France.
Alain GeloenUMR Ecologie Microbienne Lyon (LEM), University of Lyon, 69100 Villeurbanne, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7921-1254
Cyrille PichotCritical Care, Hôpital Louis Pasteur, 39108 Dole, France.
Sandrine LeroyEpidemiology, Epismart, 75105 Paris, France.
Marco GhignoneCritical Care, JF Kennedy Hospital North Campus, West Palm Beach, FL 33407, USA.
Luc QuintinCritical Care, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Desgenettes, 69003 Lyon, France.
Hôpital d'instruction des Armées Desgenettes · FRHôpital Pasteur · FRUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mortality in the setting of septic shock varies between 20% and 100%. Refractory septic shock leads to early circulatory failure and carries the worst prognosis. The pathophysiology is poorly understood despite studies of the microcirculatory defects and the immuno-paralysis. The acute circulatory distress is treated with volume expansion, administration of vasopressors (usually noradrenaline: NA), and inotropes. Ventilation and anti-infectious strategy shall not be discussed here. When circulation is considered, the literature is segregated between interventions directed to the systemic circulation vs. interventions directed to the micro-circulation. Our thesis is that,

Indexed as

alpha-2 agonistangiotensinbeta-blockercirculationclonidinedexmedetomidineesmololmicrocirculationnoradrenalineorgan perfusionpermissive hypotensionrefractory septic shockseptic shocksympathetic systemvascular hyporesponsivenessvasodilationvasoplegiavasopressinvasopressor

Identifiers

PMID34640590
PMCPMC8509206
OpenAlexW3202319011

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