. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2016 Dec 1;182:21–27.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.11.008

Table 3; online.

Effect of prophylactic indomethacin on vasopressor dependent hypotension among infants born at ≤25^6/7 weeks gestation or ≥26 weeks gestation

	Incidence of vasopressor use for at least 24 hours during days 4–7
	≤25^6/7 weeks gestation (n=130)			≥26 weeks gestation (n=183)
Vasopressor	Conservative epoch (n=41)	Prophylactic epoch (n=89)	p-value	Conservative epoch (n=57)	Prophylactic epoch epoch	p-value
	%	%		%	%
Dopamine -any	37	22	0.09	21	15	0.32
Dopamine ≥6 µg/kg/min	32	13	0.01	14	9	0.28
Dopamine ≥10 µg/kg/min	22	9	0.04	14	4	0.01
Hydrocortisone ^*	5	2	0.65	7	1	0.03

Incidence of hydrocortisone use when dopamine infusion rate ≥16 µg/kg/min