... 2Example of a laser Doppler recording of blood flow during reactive hyperaemia in a patient sedated with midazolamExample of a laser Doppler recording of blood flow during reactive hyperaemia in a ... important during reactive hyperaemia than at rest,evidence of a potentiation of vasomotion by hyperaemia. Dur-ing midazolam infusion, an inhibition of this increase of vaso-motion induced by ... microcirculation,explaining, at least in part, the observed tissue hypoxia [3,4].More recently, sepsis, a major cause of death in the intensive care unit (ICU), has been shown to induce microcirculatorydysfunction,...