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A Peripartum Sepsis Case Study

The Critical Care Obstetrics Podcast

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The Role of Vasopressors in Volume Resuscitation

This patient, it's very clear that they did not recognize just how volume depleted this patient was. So fill the tank as much as you can first. Vasopressors are not first line. You can do them. I mean, there is a role for doing them in the first hour if the patient is getting volume and still shocking,. But you don't do vasopressors without even trying to fill the tank first. And she coded an hour after getting to that transport center; ended up dying of septic shock and multi system organ failure.

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