Episode 159: Postpartum hemorrhage with Juanita Henao
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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Are You Using Pitocin to Treat Uterine Adenie?
The receptors for pitocin can get desensitized you know, with higher doses. This is called tachyphylaxis in pharmacology and pitocin has this property. So if you have a patient that is being augmented and she's getting high doses of pitocin for these nutrients, the receptors will get the sensitized and then when you give more oxytocin, you're not going to achieve the same effect.
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