Treatment of presumed acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema in an ambulance system by nurses using Boussignac continuous positive airway pressure

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-144

  Dieperink, W ^a   Weelink, E E M ^a   Van Der Horst, I C C ^a   De Vos, R ^a   Jaarsma, T ^a   Aarts, L P H J ^a   Zijlstra, F ^a   Nijsten, M W N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MORPHINE;

ACUTE CARDIOGENIC PULMONARY EDEMA; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; OXYGENATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EDEMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61749096531     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.055095     Document Type: Article

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