The patient is slowly becoming less responsive to phenylephr…
The patient is slowly becoming less responsive to phenylephrine despite going up on the drip and adequate fluid resuscitation. You notice that the patient took her lisinopril and decide you would like to administer 1 unit of vasopressin, a pressor medication often used under general anesthesia for refractory hypotension related to a patient taking an ACE-i or ARB. In the pyxis, only vasopressin 20 units/mL is available. Show a way you could dilute the concentrated vasopressin to administer 1 unit of vasopressin to the patient.
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