Stephen Stowers is a cardiologist and author of Box of Birds: What New Zealand taught me about life and the practice of medicine.
An excerpt from Box of Birds: What New Zealand taught me about life and the practice of medicine.
While dobutamine improves the strength of heart contractions and can thereby help raise blood pressure, it also has properties that dilate the arteries, which in this patient’s case dropped the blood pressure further. …
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