Kiyan Heybati, Guozhen Xie, Luqman Ellythy, Keshav Poudel, Jiawen Deng, Fangwen Zhou, Cynthia J Chelf, Juan G Ripoll, Harish Ramakrishna
Consensus statements recommend the use of norepinephrine and/or vasopressin for hypotension in cardiac surgery. However, there is a paucity of data among other surgical subgroups and vasopressin analogs. Therefore, the authors conducted a systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to compare vasopressin-receptor agonists with norepinephrine for hypotension among those undergoing surgery with general anesthesia. This review was registered prospectively (CRD42022316328). Literature searches were conducted by a medical librarian to November 28, 2023, across MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL, and Web of Science...
March 12, 2024: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia