Negative-pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) occurs when a large, negative intrathoracic pressure is generated against an obstructed upper airway, causing fluid to shift into the lung interstitium.
TREATMENT of experimental pulmonary edema with ethyl alcohol as an antifoaming agent has been described by Luisada. 1 However, no clinical experience with this agent has as yet appeared in the ...
Those diagnosed with SIPE were included. Diagnostic criteria included absence of water aspiration, acute onset of dyspnoea, cough and/or expectoration of frothy sputum, with evidence of pulmonary ...