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D-Dopamine is used to treat low blood pressure due to various causes like heart attack, infection, or surgery. It improves blood flow and urine output, often used under close medical supervision.
Brief Description of Dopamine Hydrochloride
- Indication: Shock, acute heart failure, hypotension.
- Adult Dose: 1-5 mcg/kg/min IV for hypotension, with adjustments based on response.
- Child Dose: 1-5 mcg/kg/min IV, titrated up to 20 mcg/kg/min.
- Contraindication: Pheochromocytoma, uncorrected tachyarrhythmias, hypersensitivity.
- Precaution: Correct hypovolemia before infusion, caution in peripheral vascular disease, pregnancy, and lactation.
- Side Effects are Cardiovascular effects, respiratory symptoms, gastrointestinal disturbances, metabolic changes, central nervous system effects, and ocular effects.
- Pregnancy Category: Category C, caution in lactation.
- Interacts with anesthetics, MAO inhibitors, ergots, and alpha-blockers.