Antihypotensive agent
An antihypotensive agent, also known as a vasopressor agent or simply vasopressor, or pressor, is any substance, whether
glucocorticoids) sensitize adrenoreceptors to catecholamines;[2] and others (e.g. dopamine, dobutamine
) increase cardiac output.
If low blood pressure is due to blood loss, then preparations increasing volume of blood circulation—plasma-substituting solutions such as colloid and crystalloid solutions (salt solutions)anemic.
Classification
Antihypotensive agents can be classified as follows:[citation needed]
- Sympathomimetics
- Epinephrine
- Noradrenaline
- Phenylephrine
- Dobutamine
- Dopamine
- Dopexamine
- Ephedrine
- Midodrine
- Amezinium
- Metaraminol
- Vasopressin
- Angiotensinamide
- S-alkylisothiouronium derivatives
- Difetur
- Izoturon
- mineralocorticoids
- Positive inotropic agents
- Cardiac glycosides
- Strophantin K
- Convallatoxin
- Digoxin
- PDE3 inhibitors
- Levosimendan
- Cardiac
References
- ^ "Antihypotensive definition". Drugs.com. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
- PMID 10484620. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
- ^ "Intravenous fluid therapy in adults in hospital". NICE. May 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2018.