Acute heart failure.

摘要

Editor - We are writing to express our concern at a misconception alluded to by Cleland, Yassin and Khadjooi (Clin Med February 2010 pp 59-64). The authors state that 'patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema cannot lie flat so, unless the patient is ventilated, myocardial infarction (MI) should be managed with thrombolysis, and unstable angina with judicious doses of nitrates'.