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Pulmonary Oedema - Emergency Management

Sit patient up and give O2

Pulmonary Oedema

 

·        Sit patient up and give O2


·        Medication:


·        IV frusemide: 40 – 80 mg if not on any already

o   IV morphine: 5 – 10 mg – calming effect, ¯respiratory rate, venodilator ® ¯preload

o   Sublingual nitroglycerine

o   If BP > 100 mmHg then captopril 6.25 mg


·        Occasionally CPAP or IPPV

 

·         Pulmonary oedema resulting from near drowning and ARDS does not respond to morphine & diuretics        may require ventilation

 

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