Search for better inotropic drugs should continue

Psychological impairment in adolescents with JIA: should we continue the search for evidence?

Background Previous studies suggest that adolescents with JIA cope relatively well with the consequences of their painful and potentially incapacitating illness, and that, with regard to their psychosocial functioning, there seem to be few differences between them and healthy teenagers. The discrepancy between these findings and clinical experience gave us reason to search for a more subtle car...

Why should we continue to learn?

F ormal under-graduate and post-graduate education prepares us with the basic “potential” to implement health care. Actual medical practice and responsibilities place demands on the individual to maintain a relevant level of knowledge, skills, attitudes and even behaviour, to improve standards of practice and patient care. The tensions that arise at a personal level are knowing what to learn, w...

Lipid lowering drugs for patients who continue to smoke?

Cardiac effects of non-adrenergic inotropic drugs

Cover illustration " Weighing of the Heart " from chapter 125 of " the Book of the Dead " , a famous papyrus from the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt, dated around 1250 BC. Second thoughts Tage Danielsson from " Thoughts from the root " (1974) I believe in doubt. Doubt is the basis of all knowledge and the engine of all change. Doubt is, to make doubly sure, the prerequisite of...

The need for inotropic drugs in anesthesiology and intensive care.

The management of the failing heart represents an increasingly frequent challenge to both anesthesiologists and intensive care physicians, due to the increased prevalence of ventricular dysfunction in the population and to the ever-expanding indications for the surgical treatment of cardiac disease. Inotropic drugs are nowadays invaluable therapeutic tools in the treatment of perioperative hear...