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Comparison of the haemodynamic effects of dopamine and dobutamine in young children undergoing cardiac surgery
Nineteen children, aged 2-54 months, requiring high-dose inotropic support after cardiac surgery, were given either dopamine or dobutamine in a blinded, double crossover, study. Using a pulmonary artery thermistor, right and left atrial cannulae, and pulmonary and femoral arterial catheters, conventional haemodynamic variables were measured hourly over three consecutive 4 h dopamine-dobutamine-dopamine or dobutamine-dopamine-dobutamine exchanges.
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