A multicentre randomised controlled trial of the use of continuous positive airway pressure and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in the early treatment of patients presenting to the emergency department with severe acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema: the 3CPO Trial
Gray AJ, Goodacre S, Newby DE, Masson MA, Sampson F, Dixon S, Crane S, Elliott M, Nicholl J
Record ID 32005001007
English
Authors' objectives:
To determine whether non-invasive ventilation reduces mortality and whether there are important differences in outcome by treatment modality.
Authors' recommendations:
Study found that non-invasive ventilatory support delivered by either continuous positive airway pressure or non-invasive positive pressure ventilation safely provides earlier improvement and resolution of breathlessness, respiratory distress and metabolic abnormality in patients with severe acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema
Details
Project Status:
Completed
URL for project:
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1338
Year Published:
2009
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
- Acute Disease
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Emergency Service, Hospital
- Intubation, Intratracheal
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Oxygen Inhalation Therapy
- Quality-Adjusted Life Years
- Survival Analysis
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
- Heart Diseases
- Myocardial Infarction
- Positive-Pressure Respiration
- Pulmonary Edema
Contact
Organisation Name:
NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme
Contact Address:
NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Copyright:
2009 Queen's Printer and Controller of HMSO
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