Continuous versus bilevel positive airway pressure in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema? A good question!

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2546-2548

  Mehta, Sangeeta ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Congestive heart failure; Mechanical ventilation; Noninvasive ventilation; Pulmonary edema

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; GAS EXCHANGE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EDEMA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EDEMA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10644232307     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000142946.76136.5C     Document Type: Editorial

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