Preserving Cardiac Output With Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blockade and Inhibiting the Bezold-Jarisch Reflex During Resuscitation From Hemorrhage

Abstract

Inhibition of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex may aid fluid resuscitation after hemorrhage only if stroke volume is restored. Beta-adrenergic receptor antagonists such as propranolol may prove the most salutary of these agents in enhancing fluid resuscitation in patients with severe hemorrhage.