May 8, 2009 02:57
15 yrs ago
English term
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agents
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Medical: Instruments
In addition to CFI/GEF, dPmx can be used to manage the administration of positive inotropic and cardiovascular agents.
Does that mean "positive inotropic agents" and "cardiovascular agents", i.e 2 kinds of agents? agents = drugs?
Thank you in advance!
Does that mean "positive inotropic agents" and "cardiovascular agents", i.e 2 kinds of agents? agents = drugs?
Thank you in advance!
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agents
Yes, they mean drugs.
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various kinds of agents
You may well be confused. Actually, the sentence is not well written because positive inotropic agents are included cardiovascular agents. Probably the author liked to stress the positive inotropic agents. I think we may understand this as follows:
In addition to CFI/GEF, dPmx can be used to manage the administration of cardiovascular agents, particularly positive inotropic agents.
In addition to CFI/GEF, dPmx can be used to manage the administration of cardiovascular agents, particularly positive inotropic agents.
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agents
Though one might expect "agents" to be drugs, they needn't be. If you google 'pharmacology "agents AND drugs"' you will see that they are definitely not the same. At least, drugs are one type of agent. An agent is simply something that **acts** and could be e.g. saline solution (not in this particular case).
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a positive inotropic agent is a subclass of cardiovascular agents
most often, "agent" is used to denote medicinal products of various kinds
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