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Section Type: METHODS

Text: Twelve patients (age range, 9 months to 15 years) with nonhyperdynamic septic shock despite administration of catecholamines (cardiac index [CI] normal [3. 5 to 5. 5 L/min/m2] or low [< or = 3. 5 L/min/m2] ; systemic vascular resistance index [SVRI] normal [800 to 1, 600 dyne. s. cm5 / m2] or high [> or = 1, 600 dyne. s. cm5 / m2] ; and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure [PCWP] normal [8 to 12 mm Hg] or higher) with clinical signs of poor perfusion were enrolled, randomized, and treated in a blinded fashion with i. v. milrinone and placebo.