What is acute pulmonary edema?

Acute pulmonary edema is an increase in water content in the lungs due to dysfunction of fluid exchange between blood vessels and tissues in the lungs. It is the most common cause of acute respiratory failure in clinical practice. Its main manifestations are severe dyspnea, orthopnea, sweating, accompanied by paroxysmal cough or coughing of large amounts of pink foamy sputum. It is an emergency and requires strong and timely measures to relieve its clinical symptoms. Treatment is a comprehensive treatment, mainly given oxygen, sedation, diuresis, reduce heart load, vasodilation and other comprehensive treatment. If there is severe hypoxemia, it is necessary to timely give non-invasive ventilator application. The most common causes of acute pulmonary edema are infection and heart overload, among which lung infection is the most common cause. At the same time of treatment, timely improvement of relevant examinations to clarify the cause, and targeted treatment after clarifying the cause.