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fakin' the funk
02-28-2007, 08:47 PM
Sheer curiosity...is AngII ever used in the ICU as a pressor?

Are there any other pressors in the development pipeline? Thx

KGUNNER1
03-02-2007, 05:59 PM
Simple answer... No and I don't know of any more down the pipeline. Not a big ticket item for big pharma.

kg

DropkickMurphy
03-03-2007, 12:54 AM
Simple answer... No and I don't know of any more down the pipeline. Not a big ticket item for big pharma.

kg
Agreed.

But hell, you never know when you'll find a drug that's a big ticket item......Viagra was originally being developed as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension until someone commented on the "side effect" and voila! Pfizer had a cash cow on its hands.

sponch
03-29-2007, 10:49 PM
no but vasopressin is used, though less and less in our icu