Inhalation of Ethyl Alcohol for Pulmonary Edema
- 29 November 1951
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 245 (22) , 842-843
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195111292452202
Abstract
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 literature. The purpose of this paper is to report the addition of ethyl-alcohol inhalation to the therapeutic regimen for pulmonary edema in man and to describe the solution of certain technical problems in the administration of this drug.The conventional management of paroxysmal pulmonary edema has aimed at three goals: depression with morphine or other sedative drugs of the nerve centers involved in the reflex effects on lung capillaries; reduction . . .Keywords
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- Therapy of Paroxysmal Pulmonary Edema by Antifoaming AgentsCirculation, 1950