OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CPAP STUDY

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Evaluate efficacy and safety of CPAP in a randomised standard treatment controlled study, in out-of-hospital patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Toulouse
• Treatments: Furosemide; Isosorbide; Isosorbide Dinitrate; Isosorbide-5-mononitrate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patient with supposed acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema, defined as acute dyspnea associated with a past of cardiomyopathy ischemia and physical signs consistent with pulmonary edema.

• patient giving written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Glasgow score < 10

• Acute myocardial infarction ; ventricular arrhythmia ; pneumothorax ; evidence of pneumonia ; immediate need for intubation ; heart failure or respiratory stop witch requires a reanimation ; cardiogenic shock (systolic blood pressure < 90 mmhg)

• Any neurological impairment that would prevent the protocol compliance

• participation in another study throughout this one

• women pregnant or nursing

• vomiting

• patient with an history of gastric surgery (< 8days)