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Vasodilatory shock results from multiple causes, of which sepsis is the most common. Nonseptic causes include severe acute pancreatitis, post cardiopulmonary bypass vasoplegia and other triggers for a systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Even brief hypotensive periods can result in myocardial and renal injury, and increased mortality in the critically ill. Further, refractory hypotension has a 30-day all-cause mortality greater than 50%. Our expert faculty shares strategies to optimize current therapies and promising evidence for new therapies for refractory vasodilatory shock.
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Chair
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine; Staff Intensivist, SICU and Center for Critical Care; Staff Anesthesiologist, Department of General Anesthesiology; Vice-Chief for Research Center for Critical Care, Staff Department of Outcomes Research, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Research Scientist, NovEx Novice to Expert Learning, St. Louis, Missouri
Professor of Internal Medicine, Pharmacology, Anesthesiology, and Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California
Professor of Medicine, Brown University; Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine; Medical Director, MICU Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Associate Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Director, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Co-Director, EM-IM/CCM Training Program; Co-Director, Critical Care Access and Flow, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Michael Cudahy Professor and Chair, Department of Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio