Dr.huda

👩🏼‍⚕️ Pulmonary edema is a condition caused by excess fluid in the lungs. This fluid collects in the numerous air sacs in the lungs, making it difficult to breathe.

📝 In most cases, heart problems cause pulmonary edema

✔️causes :
1. Congestive heart failure
2. heart attack, or other heart diseases
3. leaking, narrowed, or damaged heart valves
4. sudden high blood pressure
5. pneumonia
6. kidney failure
7. lung damage caused by severe infection
8. severe sepsis of the blood, or blood poisoning caused by infection

🔎 Diagnosis of pulmonary edema :

1.an increased heart rate
2.rapid breathing
3.a crackling sound from your lungs
any abnormal heart sounds

❇️ Examples of tests used in diagnosing pulmonary edema include:

✔️complete blood count
✔️echocardiogram, or an ultrasound, to check for abnormal heart activity
✔️chest X-ray to see fluid
✔️blood tests to check oxygen levels
✔️electrocardiogram (ECG) to look for heart rhythm problems or signs of a heart attack

👩🏻‍⚕️treatment:
1. Preload reducers : Diuretics
2. Morphine (MS Contin, Oramorph, others
3. Blood pressure drugs if high blood pressure (GTN)
4.monitor UOP

🤔don’t forget semisitting postion and oxygen