title: [Cardiogenic pulmonary edema - truth and myths in the perspective of emergency medicine].
abstract: This critical analysis of the traditional pathophysiological approach to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiogenic pulmonary edema calls into question some long-established ideas and interventions that ought to be replaced by better evidence-based concepts.
authors.affiliation: Zentrale Notfallaufnahme, Kantonsspital St. Gallen. joseph.osterwalder@kssg.ch
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Osterwalder
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003422:Critical Care; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy