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Available online /content/13/4/179 Commentary Challenging the rationale of routine vasopressor therapy for management of hypotension Max Harry Weil and Wanchun Tang Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270, USA Corresponding author: Max Harry Weil, weilm@ Published: 14 August 2009 Critical Care 2009, 13:179 (doi:10.1186/cc7976) This article is online at /content/13/4/179 ? 2009 BioMed Central Ltd See related research by Dubin et al., /content/13/3/R92 Abstract oxygen saturation that are typical of the initial stages of septic shock. If vasopressor drugs suc