The use of prehospital continuous positive airway pressure treatment in presumed acute severe pulmonary edema

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 209-213

  Kallio, Tarja ^a   Kuisma, Markku ^a,b   Alaspää, Ari ^a   Rosenberg, Per H ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Helsinki EMS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute pulmonary edema; Congestive heart failure; Continuous positive airway pressure; CPAP; Intubation; Prehospital emergency care

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; METOPROLOL; MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BREATHING RATE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXYGENATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0346826296     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120390936798     Document Type: Article

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