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 ventilator strategies. It is defined by acute ...

Despite advances in the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI), the incidence of cardiogenic shock has ... Get a chest x-ray to look for pulmonary edema; check for elevated right heart pressures ...

The Killip Classification is frequently used during acute myocardial infarction ... Class III: Pulmonary edema (mortality 38%) Class IV: Cardiogenic shock defined as systolic blood pressure ...