laurentm38

Hi everybody ! I was wondering if someone could tell me how dopamine is usually infused in the USA, more precisely in ICU. I was told it is usually prepared in bags and infused with infusion pumps, which sounds quite surprising to me, as in Europe it is prepared in syringes and infused with syringe pumps. How is the dopamine prepared ? which mass ? in which volume ? What are the flow rates of infusion ? Do you manage to keep the BP constant ? This is interesting to me, as the change of syringes is a "sensitive" time and requieres much attention, due to the short half life of this drug. Maybe we could take some inspiration from the US medical practice... Thanks for responses... Laurent, from France