#	Searches	Results
1	cardiogenic shock/	24059
2	(cardiogen* adj9 shock*).tw,ot,kw.	18652
3	(circulator* adj3 shock*).tw,ot,kw.	1949
4	coron* shock*.tw,ot,kw.	32
5	acute circulatory fail*.tw,ot,kw.	465
6	*Shock/dt not (septic or sepsis or bacter*em* or infect* or endotoxin* or heat shock or HSP* or anaphyl* or allergic or vasodilat* or osmotic or h?emorr* or bleeding or toxic or neurogen* or burn* or shock-wave or shock-resistant or hypovolemic or electroconvuls* or distributive shock*).ti.	1157
7	((undifferent* or undiagnos* or different or various or variety or type or types or kind or kinds or forms or states or etiologies) adj2 (shock* not heat shock*)).tw.	2735
8	or/1-7 [ I ]	32877
9	heart muscle ischemia/ or heart infarction/ or acute heart infarction/ or anterior myocardial infarction/ or heart infarction size/ or exp heart ventricle infarction/ or non st segment elevation myocardial infarction/ or posterior myocardial infarction/ or st segment elevation myocardial infarction/ or exp percutaneous coronary intervention/ or percutaneous transluminal angioplasty/ or coronary artery bypass graft/ or coronary artery bypass surgery/	547773
10	(((myocard* or heart or card* or ST) adj3 (infarct* or isch?em*)) or (coronary intervent* or STEMI or PCI or angioplast* or post-isch* or postisch* or postinfarct* or post-infarct* or MI or AMI or myocard* revasc* or coronary artery bypass* or CABG or aortocoronary bypass* or coronary bypass*)).tw,ot,kw.	572593
11	9 or 10 [MI]	737611
12	(*shock/ or shock.ti.) not (exp heart stimulation/ or (septic or sepsis or bacter*em* or infect* or endotoxin* or heat shock or HSP* or anaphyl* or allergic or vasodilat* or osmotic or h?emorr* or bleeding or toxic or neurogen* or burn* or shock-wave or shock-resistant or hypovolemic or electroconvuls* or distributive shock*).ti.) [shock general]	32315
13	forward heart failure/	5518
14	((low* or diminish* or decreas* or declin* or reduc* or negligibl* or fall*) adj2 (card* or heart) adj output*).tw,kw.	12569
15	((low* or diminish* or decreas* or declin* or reduc* or negligibl*) adj output*).tw,kw.	2964
16	cardiac output low.tw,kw,ot.	105
17	(LCOS or COS or LCO).tw,ot,kw.	20242
18	((instab* or unstab*) adj1 h?emodyn*).tw,kw.	12677
19	or/12-18 [shock, low CO]	81903
20	11 and 19 [ II = MI + CO ]	10001
21	8 or 20 [I II]	38501
22	(book or editorial).pt. or book/ or editorial/ or ((("review" or letter).pt. or "review"/ or letter/) not (meta analysis/ or "systematic review"/ or clinical study/ or case control study/ or exp controlled clinical trial/ or controlled study/ or intervention study/ or longitudinal study/ or major clinical study/ or prospective study/ or retrospective study/ or cohort analysis/ or (systematic adj2 (literature or review)).tw,ot,kw.))	3896039
23	((animal/ or animal experiment/ or animal model/ or nonhuman/) not human/) or (porcine or piglet or pig or pigs or rat or rats or dogs or dog or canine).ti. or ph?eochrom*.mp.	6420601
24	22 or 23	10059750
25	21 not 24 [I II - humans not editorials, reviews]	30861
26	*inotropic agent/ or inotropic agent/ae, ct, cb, cm, dt	6390
27	*cardiotonic agent/ or cardiotonic agent/ae, ct, cb, cm, dt	2726
28	catecholamine/ae, ct, cb, cm, dt	1671
29	(cardiotonic* or inopressor* or inodilator*).tw,ot,kw.	3739
30	(catecholamines or inotropes or vasopressors or ((catecholamine or inotrop* or vasopressor) adj3 (support or solution* or infusion* or dosing or dose* or dosage* or prescri* or "use" or therap* or treat* or cotreat* or administ* or requir* or need* or superior or first-line or "add" or added or addition or adding or receiv* or receipt or regimen* or alone or combin* or plus or compar* or vs or versus or assigned or allocat* or randomi?ed or effectiveness or efficacy or drug* or agent* or substance* or group))).tw,ot,kw.	74053
31	dopamine/ not (dopamine/ec not dopamine/ae, cb, cm, dt)	80557
32	(dopamin* or hydroxytyramin* or Intropin*).tw,ot,kw.	189228
33	dobutamine/ not (dobutamine/ec not dobutamine/ae, cb, cm, dt)	23435
34	dobutamin*.tw,ot,kw.	12411
35	noradrenalin/ not (noradrenalin/ec not noradrenalin/ae, cb, cm, dt)	114540
36	(norepinephrin* or noradrenalin*).tw,ot,kw.	120459
37	adrenalin/ not (adrenalin/ec not adrenalin/ae, cb, cm, dt)	111164
38	(epinephrin* or adrenalin*).tw,ot,kw.	83979
39	milrinone/	7278
40	milrinon*.tw,ot,kw.	2706
41	vasopressin/ not (vasopressin/ec not vasopressin/ad, cb, cm, dt)	29150
42	vasopressin*.tw,ot,kw.	41607
43	simendan/	106
44	(simendan or levosimend*).tw,ot,kw.	2165
45	or/26-44 [drugs]	549646
46	25 and 45 [total]	5721
47	remove duplicates from 46 [total hits -deduplicated]	5640
48	(embase or elsevier or canadian).cr.	26116001
49	47 and 48 [ EMBASE records only]	5261