Acute Hemodynamic Changes After Rapid Intravenous Bolus Dosing of Dexmedetomidine in Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients Undergoing Routine Cardiac Catheterization

Abstract

Rapid i.v. bolus administration of dexmedetomidine in this small sample of children having undergone heart transplants was clinically well tolerated, although it resulted in a transient but significant increase in systemic and pulmonary pressure and a decrease in HR. In the systemic system, there is a larger percent increase in the diastolic pressures than the systolic pressures and, furthermore, these transient increases in pressures were more pronounced in the systemic system than in the pulmonary system.