Emergency medicine, critical care, and acute care providers evaluate, resuscitate, and manage patients with shock on a daily basis. Despite initial efforts, a select number of patients are refractory to fluid and vasopressor administration. In this podcast, we discuss a rationale approach to vasopressor administration, along with several rescue therapies for the patient with refractory vasodilatory shock.
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