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Efficacy and safety of non-invasive ventilation in the treatment of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema – a systematic review and meta-analysis

João C Winck1, Luís F Azevedo2,3*, Altamiro Costa-Pereira2,3, Massimo Antonelli4 and Jeremy C Wyatt5

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1 Department of Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal

2 Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal

3 Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems – CINTESIS (Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação em Saúde), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal

4 Unita Operativa di Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva, Instituto di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

5 Health Informatics Centre, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK

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Critical Care 2006, 10:R69 doi:10.1186/cc4905

Published: 28 April 2006

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