It is especially appropriate that a paper originating from the Medical Division of the Army Chemical Center be included in this anniversary volume of the Yalc Journal of Biology and Medicine. Dr. Winternitz has been actively connected with chemical warfare medical research from the beginning and particularly during the two wartime periods of greatest activity. During the war against the Central...

934 Communications to the Editor Once the blood pressure stabilized on a norepinephrine (Levophed) drip and her respiratory parameters improved with ventilation and suctioning, the laceration was sutured and tourniquet removed, and the patient was transferred to the intensive care unit for continued cardiopulmonary monitoring. The patient was successfully extubated after eight days and discharg...

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Unilateral reexpansion pulmonary edema (RPE) is a rare complication of the treatment of lung collapse secondary to pneumothorax, pleural effusion, or atelectasis. Although RPE generally is believed to occur only when a chronically collapsed lung is rapidly reexpanded by evacuation of large amounts of air or fluid, in this review 15 of 47 cases of RPE available for assessment occurred when the p...

Over the last three decades, increased awareness and education have lessened the instances of high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) encountered by otherwise healthy, active sojourners to high altitude. HAPE had been described in Europe as early as the late 1700s and in South America in the late 1800s and 1900s, when it was thought to be pneumonia and/or fluid in the lungs from heart failure. But...

Laryngospasm is one of the more common forms of airway obstruction encountered by an anesthetist. Therapy usually is straightforward, with resolution of the obstruction normally occurring within minutes. In some cases, however, the patient's vigorous inspiratory efforts may lead to a rapidly deteriorating form of pulmonary edema. Two cases are presented that are quite typical of the development...

From the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville (L.B.W.); and the Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (M.A.M.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Ware at the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical ...