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 ...

One week later the patient presented at the emergency department of a different hospital with cardiogenic shock ... ST-segment changes (Figure 1). Pulmonary edema was detected by auscultation ...

Despite advances in the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI), the incidence of cardiogenic ... pulmonary disease. (To see an algorithm showing patient management in individuals with cardiogenic ...

Pulmonary edema (mortality 38%) Class IV: Cardiogenic shock defined as systolic blood pressure < 90 and signs of hypoperfusion such as oliguria, cyanosis, and sweating (mortality 67%) The original ...