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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Anesthesiology. 2009 Feb;110(2):254–261. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181942c7a

Table 4.

Intraoperative Vasopressor Medication Use

Normotensive Hypertensive
Ephedrine
  Patients administered (%) 8/21 (38.1%) 11/24 (45.8%)
  Mean total dose (mg) 8.13 ± 2.59 18.64 ± 12.87
Phenylephrine
  Patients administered (%) 5/21 (23.8%) 6/24 (25.0%)
  Mean total dose (mcg) 256.0 ± 156.5 120.0 ± 121.3

Doses are presented as means ± SD of only those patients who received the respective medication.