RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 THE EFFECT OF EPHEDRINE ON EXPERIMENTAL SHOCK AND HEMORRHAGE JF Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics JO J Pharmacol Exp Ther FD American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics SP 83 OP 95 VO 26 IS 2 A1 K. K. CHEN YR 1925 UL http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/26/2/83.abstract AB 1. Ephedrine raises blood pressure in hemorrhages and in experimental shock induced by histamine, peptone, anaphylaxis, or by surgical manipulation. 2. The rise in blood pressure is permanent under favorable conditions and this effect of the drug is due to increased cardiac output and not to arterial constriction. 3. Ephedrine fails to act when the heart beat becomes impaired, or respiration ceases, or the degree of shock is too extensive, or when hemorrhage exceeds 25 per cent. It has, however, no harmful effects.