Book chapter
Pulmonary Edema
Advanced Anesthesia Review, pp.368-C143.S7
Oxford University Press
2023
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780197584521.003.0142
Abstract
Abstract Pulmonary edema refers broadly to the abnormal accumulation of fluid within the extravascular lung tissue, adversely affecting gas exchange across the capillary membrane. Pulmonary edema can cause acute respiratory insufficiency, resulting in a life-threatening emergency event. Although diagnostic classification differentiates between cardiogenic and noncardiogenic pulmonary edema, the pathobiology is more complex than the hydrostatic versus permeability dichotomy alone. Patients need early stabilization of oxygenation and ventilation, preferably with high-flow nasal cannula oxygen or noninvasive ventilation while the diagnostic cause is investigated with echocardiography and other testing. For the best possible patient outcomes, it is essential that physicians in all clinical areas are equipped to accurately recognize, assess, and manage patients with acute pulmonary edema.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Pulmonary Edema
- Creators
- Sangini PuniaLovkesh L. Arora
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Advanced Anesthesia Review, pp.368-C143.S7
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- DOI
- 10.1093/med/9780197584521.003.0142
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2023
- Academic Unit
- Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984530281602771
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