Epinephrine dosages of the intensive care unit survivors

Copyright information:Taken from "Levosimendan may improve survival in patients requiring mechanical assist devices for post-cardiotomy heart failure"Critical Care 2006;10(1):R17-R17.Published online 13 Jan 2006PMCID:PMC1550852. Boxplots presents medians and 25 and 75 percentiles; limits are the 95 confidence intervals. White boxplots are the values of the maximal epinephrine dosage at the day of surgery, grey boxplots are the mean epinephrine dosages during assist device, striped boxplots are the maximal epinephrine dosage during the first 24 hours after explanation of the assist device and black boxplots are the values of the mean epinephrine dosage during the first 24 hours after explantation of the assist device. Asterisks indicate < 0.001 between the groups.