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. 2020 Feb 4;24:36. doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-2743-8

Table 2.

Vasopressor titrationa

NE equivalentb (μg/kg/min) Vasopressin (U/min) Methylene bluec (mg/kg) Angiotensin II (ng/kg/min)d,e Hydroxycobalaminf (g)
If you have just titrated NE to: Make sure vaso is: Administer And titrate ang II to: Administer
< 0.05 < 0.07 No Ang II offc No
0.05–0.1 < 0.07 Yes 10c Yes
0.1–0.15 < 0.07 Yes 20 Yes
0.15–0.20 < 0.07 Yes 30 Yes
> 0.20 < 0.07 Yes 40 Yes

aTitration driven by NE dosing, based on MAP goals

bNE equivalent doses represented in Table 1

c2 mg/kg IVP over 5 min or as IVPB over 20–60 min

dAng II maximum dose is 40 ng/kg/min

eAlways initiate Ang II at 10 ng/kg/min. In patients who are hyper responders or extremely hemodynamically dependent on Ang II, consider titrating down Ang II to 5 ng/kg/min before titrating off

f5 g infused over 15 min