The night septic shock took a patient we fought to save
An excerpt from Blood Poison: The Untold Story of Sepsis.
Eduardo’s blood pressure failed to respond to one fluid bolus, then another, and another. We instructed his nurse, Jenny, to start a vasopressor called dopamine while Alex and I prepared to place a central venous catheter in Eduardo’s internal jugular vein. (Dopamine also increases heart rate and cardiac muscle contractility. Although doctors classify drugs as vasopressors and inotropes, many of …
The night septic shock took a patient we fought to save
