Your patient was admitted with metastatic lung cancer, is taking chemotherapy, has low urine output, temp - 102.4, BP = 88/46, platelet count = 14,000, lactic acid 9.8, and altered mental status. After assessment, you recognize that the patient needs which of the following?

The first line drug for refractory hypotension with septic shock is . . .

Which of the following pressures are normal?

Your patient with an inferior wall MI also has RV infarction. He soon develops RV failure. Which of the following data obtained would support this?

A normal wedge pressure, increased pulmonary artery pressures, and evidence of right ventricular failure would most likely indicate . . .

Which one of these is NOT a determinant of cardiac output?

A patient in the warm hyperdynamic phase of sepsis will have decreased afterload. Knowing this, infusions that might increase afterload and help with tissue perfusion are all of the following EXCEPT

All of the following decrease afterload EXCEPT

You have a septic patient with HR = 120, BP = 88/42, Cardiac index = 5.3, oliguria, altered mentation, warm extremities and Cardiac output = 9.2. To improve the patient's blood pressure, the best choice would be: