How to Treat Cardiogenic Shock

With stress cardiopathy, we see this not uncommonly. We sometimes find ourselves going down the pathway of conventional treatment that's not working. And then again, we back into a diagnosis because we weren't considering it upfront. So we'll just assume for the purposes of this, we don't see anything that would preclude sort of a normal RSI intubation. But now she's becoming more and more hypotensive. They are talking about starting some norepinephrine because we feel like she's septic. If this is cardiogenic shock, that may not be the best.