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Heart Failure: Part I

Pharmacy to Dose: The Critical Care Podcast

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IV Vasodilators

The 2022 guidelines recommend that if our patients don't have hypotension, you can give them our vasoactive agents like nitroclisturin or nitroprothide. And really, they're used to get that relief of dyspnea, shortness of breath, and pulmonary congestion. So by putting these agents on, we're kind of helping them feel better in the meantime. But really, it's mostly to target that pulmonary congestion for symptoms,. It's only a nagem to diuretic, diuretic is really the ones that are treating that underlying cause.

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