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Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure ( ed.)

Edited by Theresa A. McDonagh, Roy S. Gardner, Andrew L. Clark, Henry Dargie

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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Jul 2011
Print ISBN-13:
9780199577729
Published to Oxford Medicine:
Jul 2011
DOI:
10.1093/med/9780199577729.001.0001

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Ventilatory strategies in heart failure

Ventilatory support and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP)are pivotal treatments of cardiogenic pulmonary oedema. Asrecently recommended, it should be introduced within minutes ofadmission at hospital for acute heart failure (HF) and ideally athome in case of prehospital management. Ventilatory support isone of the few tools that have been proven to change short-termoutcome in acute HF.

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