Norepinephrine dose and concentration reporting: the devil is in the details

Eduardo Kattan¹, Miguel Ibarra-Estrada², Christian Jung^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Medicina Intensiva, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
² Unidad de Terapia Intensiva, Hospital Civil Fray Antonio Alcalde, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
³ Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225, Duesseldorf, Germany. christian.jung@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.
⁴ CARID (Cardiovascular Research Institute Düsseldorf), Duesseldorf, Germany. christian.jung@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.

Eduardo Kattan et al. Intensive Care Med. 2024 Jun.

. 2024 Jun;50(6):1008-1009.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-024-07446-z. Epub 2024 Apr 24.

Eduardo Kattan¹, Miguel Ibarra-Estrada², Christian Jung^{3

4}

¹ Departamento de Medicina Intensiva, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
² Unidad de Terapia Intensiva, Hospital Civil Fray Antonio Alcalde, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
³ Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225, Duesseldorf, Germany. christian.jung@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.
⁴ CARID (Cardiovascular Research Institute Düsseldorf), Duesseldorf, Germany. christian.jung@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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