Managing Acute Pulmonary Edema with NIPPV: Get It Wrong, and Your Best Move Might Be a Clean Kill

Acute pulmonary edema can look similar at the bedside, but SCAPE and cardiogenic shock represent fundamentally different hemodynamic emergencies. This post explains how to distinguish between the two different phenotypes of acute pulmonary edema, - SCAPE and cardiogenic shock —and the differences in how we manage each in the emergency setting.