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- Title
Should we treat mild hypotension in septic patients in the absence of peripheral tissue hypoperfusion?
- Authors
Lavillegrand, Jean-Rémi; Dumas, Guillaume; Bigé, Naïke; Zafimahazo, Daniel; Guidet, Bertrand; Maury, Eric; Ait-Oufella, Hafid
- Abstract
A retrospective observational study on the management of mild arterial hypotension in septic patients in the absence of tissue hypoperfusion in an 18-bed intensive care unit (ICU) in a tertiary teaching hospital, is presented. Topics covered include role of tissue perfusion analysis in guiding the mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) target and peripheral tissue perfusion.
- Subjects
PERFUSION; HYPOTENSION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC shock; INTENSIVE care patients; INTENSIVE care units; CRITICAL care medicine; ARTERIAL pressure; PATIENTS; PERIPHERAL vascular diseases
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2018, Vol 44, Issue 9, p1593
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-018-5315-5