Safety of push-dose phenylephrine in adult ICU patients

A PDP episode included both the initial administration of PDP and any subsequent doses of PDP given within a sixty-minute time-frame. [...]multiple PDP episodes could occur in a single patient. Episodes in which other bolus dose vasopressors, such as epinephrine, were used prior to phenylephrine were also excluded.2.3 Data collection Patient demographic data collected included age, sex, weight, ICU type, and history of heart failure with reduced ( 180 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure > 110 mmHg), or bradycardia (heart rate 100 μg. Results of this comparison are shown in Table 3.