Oxygen therapy, continuous positive airway pressure, or noninvasive bilevel positive pressure ventilation in the treatment of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema

Oxygen therapy, continuous positive airway pressure, or noninvasive bilevel positive pressure ventilation in the treatment of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema

OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of 3 types of noninvasive respiratory support systems in the treatment of acute pulmonary edema: oxygen therapy (O2), continuous positive airway pressure, and bilevel positive pressure ventilation. METHODS: We studied prospectively 26 patients with acute pulmonary e...

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Main Authors: Marcelo Park, Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho, Maria Inês Feltrim, Paulo Ricardo Nazário Viecili, Márcia Cristina Sangean, Márcia Volpe, Paulo Ferreira Leite, Alfredo José Mansur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2001-03-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
Subjects:
acute pulmonary edema
noninvasive ventilation
respiratory failure
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2001000300005

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