Title: Vasopressor Support in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients<br/>
Author: Robert Flint<br/>
<a href='mailto:rflint@som.umaryland.edu'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/>
Link: <a href='https://umem.org/educational_pearls/4564/'>https://umem.org/educational_pearls/4564/</a><hr/><p>In this prospective, observational study of trauma patients with isolated head trauma, 62% of patients developed post-intubation hypotension. Comparing patients receiving hypertonic saline, vasopressors, crystalloid, or blood those receiving hypertonic saline and vasopressors had less post-intubation hypotension. </p>
<p>TBI patients who develop hypotension have worse outcomes. This study reminds us the use of vasopressors in trauma patients to maintain blood pressure is appropriate in the correct circumstances.</p>
<fieldset><legend>References</legend><h2>Impact of resuscitation adjuncts on postintubation hypotension in patients with isolated traumatic brain injury</h2>
<p>Anand, Tanya MD, MPH, MT(ASCP); Hejazi, Omar MD; Conant, Madolyn BS; Joule, Dylan BS; Lundy, Megan MD; Colosimo, Christina DO, MS; Spencer, Audrey MD; Nelson, Adam MD; Magnotti, Lou MD; Joseph, Bellal MD<br />
<em>Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery</em> <a href="https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/toc/2024/07000">97(1):p 112-118, July 2024.</a> | <em>DOI:</em> 10.1097/TA.0000000000004306</p>
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