1. NIPPV for acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema
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Steve Jones and Rupert Jackson
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema ,business.industry ,General surgery ,education ,General Medicine ,Emergency department ,Specialist registrar ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Pulmonary edema ,medicine.disease ,Emergency Medicine ,medicine ,Ischaemic heart disease ,Positive-Pressure Respiration ,Neck veins ,Intensive care medicine ,business - Abstract
Report by Rupert Jackson, Specialist Registrar in Emergency Medicine Checked by Steve Jones, Specialist Registrar in Emergency Medicine A 76 year old man is brought in to the emergency department in a collapsed state. He has a history of ischaemic heart disease. He is agitated, tachypnoeic and sweating profusely. His neck veins are distended and there are widespread coarse crepitations in his …
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- 2001
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