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• Discuss the potentially beneficial and harmful effects of vasopressin.
• Describe how vasopressin is not just another vasopressor, but a hormone that possesses vasopressor properties.
• Consider how the early administration of vasopressin may be preferable to a late or even rescue therapy in septic shock.