Small, single-center trials have shown that noninvasive ventilation benefits patients who do not respond to medical therapy for acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema. Gray and colleagues have now ...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) continues to be a tough nut to crack in critical care, taking lives despite years of research and better ...

Cardiogenic shock is the leading cause of ... Get a chest x-ray to look for pulmonary edema; check for elevated right heart pressures if it's not a right ventricular infarction; and check for ...