How fast does dopamine work?

Nurses General Nursing

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I took a patient on a transfer to another facility today and ended up starting a Dopamine drip at 10 mcg/min. He was a dialysis patient who was septic with new onset atrial fib. BPs in the ER and in the squad were running about the same. The last BP we got in the squad before taking the patient to ICU was 88/48. When we got to the unit his BP was 159/84, it only took a couple minutes to go from the squad to the unit. I'm wondering if dopamine can cause that big of a jump that fast? The whole situation was weird, especially since our BPs were matching the ERs.

Specializes in ER/ICU/STICU.
What??!:eek:

Why??:confused:

The person has new onset afib and dopamine can very easily push them into AF with RVR. If the issue is raising BP why not go with an alpha1 agonist instead of an alpha1 beta1 agonist.

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