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01.02.2011 | Editorial
Is the noninvasive ventilatory mode of importance during cardiogenic pulmonary edema?
verfasst von:
Erwan L’Her
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2011
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Excerpt
Despite its high incidence [
1,
2] and a high mortality rate after a first episode (20–40%) [
3,
4], cardiogenic pulmonary edema (CPE) treatment has changed very little during the past 35 years, the only real novelties coming from the proposal for nitrate boluses and the introduction of noninvasive ventilation (NIV). NIV is now routinely used during the emergency care of patients with acute CPE, with the aim of rapidly improving acute respiratory distress symptoms and reducing the need for endotracheal intubation [
5]. Several meta-analyses and consensus have positioned the early use of NIV during CPE [
6‐
10], at least in the case of persistent respiratory distress after an adequate medical treatment failure. In such indications, NIV is presumed to reduce by half the intubation and early mortality rates, and was also suggested to be associated with decreased ICU length of stay and hospital costs. …