vasopressor
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8.1
- noun
- /ˌveɪzoʊˈprɛsər/
- Specialized
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vasopresor
- To manage the patient's severe hypotension, the medical team opted for vasopressors as part of the treatment plan.
Examples
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Vasopressors and inotropes supportively treat hemodynamic instability associated with NSM.
Academic text (2016) -
The doctor decided to administer vasopressors to raise her blood pressure during the emergency procedure.
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We know that vasopressors affect blood pressure and blood pressure will affect subsequent decisions to treat with vasopressors.
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If her vital signs became unstable and she started to die, we would have to use vasopressors and chest compressions.
Blog text (20) -
These interventions include pharmacologic therapies, such as vasopressors to maintain blood pressure and appropriate antibiotics (Figure 3).
Academic text (2005) -
Failure to properly appraise this phenomenon may result in excessive administration of diuretics and vasopressors, which, instead of improving, worsen hemodynamics.
Academic text (2016) -
His laboratory and hemodynamic values began to stabilize (see Tables 1 and 2), and he eventually was weaned from all vasopressors and other medical therapies.
Academic text (2005) -
SP's hospital course was complicated by sepsis requiring volume infusion and vasopressors, pancytopenia requiring multiple blood product transfusions, and pericardial effusion.
Academic text (1995) -
After the accident, the paramedic used vasopressors to help stabilize the patient's vital signs.
Synonyms
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9.9
A substance that narrows blood vessels to raise blood pressure
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7.3
Something, like a drug, that makes blood vessels narrow and raises blood pressure
A substance that makes blood vessels narrower and raises blood pressure
Antonyms
How Potent
- Specialized
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8.1
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vasopressor combines vaso- meaning 'vessel', as in 'blood vessel', and -pressor from 'press', like the word pressure. So a vasopressor is a drug that 'presses' blood vessels to make them smaller and raise blood pressure.