The name was coined by Alexander Vostokov and popularized by Vasily Zhukovsky in his eponymous ballad, first published in 1813. The name is also used in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, and Serbia, with a number of occurrences in non-Slavic countries.
Define inotropic: increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractions â inotropic in a sentence increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractionsâ¦ See the full definition
In the previous figure, the control EF is 0.58 and increases to 0.82 with increased inotropy. Therefore, increasing inotropy leads to an increase in EF. In contrast, decreasing inotropy decreases EF. Therefore, EF is commonly used as a clinical index to assess the inotropic state of the heart.