Heart Beat: Follow-up: Limit Natrecor to hospital use, say experts
Heart Beat
Follow-up: Limit Natrecor to hospital use, say experts
An independent panel of experts took a hard look at the safety of Natrecor (nesiritide), a controversial heart failure drug, and how it is used during the summer of 2005.
The panel, headed by Dr. Eugene Braunwald, a preeminent heart failure specialist and member of the Harvard Heart Letter editorial board, made these recommendations:
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