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Between 1985 and 1988, the calcium antagonist nimodipine was given prophylactically, to prevent vasospasm, to nearly all patients admitted to the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Vienna, following aneurysmal rupture. Upon admission the patients were given nimodipine intravenously at 0.25–0.50µg/kg body weight per minute. Subsequent dosage adjustment depended upon clinical symptoms of vasospasm. Dosage was limited by the occurrence of any fall in blood pressure that was poorly responsive to treatment and by an increased pulmonary shunt volume [6].
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Schuster, H., Czech, T., Korn, A., Ungersböck, K. (1990). Clinical and Transcranial Doppler Sonography Evaluation During Treatment with Calcium Antagonists After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Bushe, KA., Brock, M., Klinger, M. (eds) Stabilizing Craniocervical Operations Calcium Antagonists in SAH Current Legal Issues. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75283-4_45
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