title: Saudi Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension: Intensive care management of pulmonary hypertension.
abstract: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) may be due to preexisting pulmonary vascular lung disease, liver disease, or cardiac diseases. PH also may be caused by critical illnesses, such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute left ventricular dysfunction and pulmonary embolism, or may occur after cardiac or thoracic surgery. Regardless of the underlying cause of PH, the final common pathway for hemodynamic deterioration and death is RV failure, which is the most challenging aspect of patient management. Therapy is thus aimed at acutely relieving RV overload by decreasing PVR and reversing RV failure with pulmonary vasodilators and inotropes.
authors: Department of Critical Care Medicine, King Fahd Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
authors: M Ali
authors: MA
authors: Al-Azem
authors: Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors: Manal S
authors: MS
authors: Al-Hazmi
keywords: Hemodynamics; Saudi association for pulmonary hypertension guidelines; intensive care unit; pulmonary hypertension