I've used a similar crude system with high flow oxygen and pressure bagging
in LVF with some success in tiding patients over until the diuretic cuts in,
but have not used it outside ITU. RRJM
----- Original Message -----
From: Darren Walter <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:59 PM
Subject: CPAP
> >Do the subscribers have experience of using CPAP in A&E? We have just
> acquired one in our Dept. and so far we have been successfully using it on
> the bad CCF's. Has anybody else had experience of using it in other
> situations e.g. respiratory failure such as severe chest infections etc?<
>
>
> CPAP was used quite freely, as was BiPAP, in the ED I worked in in Sydney.
> It was used for almost all LVF, but also quite often with infective
> exacerbations of chronic airway disease and occasionally with asthmatics
> with an insidious onset of respiratory failure.
>
> While the numbers could only be considered anecdotal, my experience was
> entirely positive. I miss its availability now that I am back in the UK.
>
>
> Darren Walter
> Yorkshire
>
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