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Characterize acute respiratory pathology and evaluate the effectiveness of oxygen therapy in military personnel exposed to chemical warfare agents.

September 14, 1918JAMA

Moisture in the AIr Spaces of the Lungs and Oxygen Therapy

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Characterize acute respiratory pathology and evaluate the effectiveness of oxygen therapy in military personnel exposed to chemical warfare agents.
Clinical observation of gas-poisoned casualties at a military casualty clearing station in Flanders during 1917.
Evaluation of pulmonary fluid accumulation, the relationship between cyanosis and dyspnea, and patient response to supplemental oxygen inhalation following phosgene and chlorine exposure.
Exposure to phosgene and chlorine triggered massive plasma extravasation into pulmonary air spaces, establishing severe primary pulmonary edema independent of left ventricular failure or myocardial incompetence.
Patients presented with pronounced cyanosis that was markedly disproportionate to subjective air hunger.
Administration of supplemental oxygen inhalation consistently and rapidly reversed clinical cyanosis.

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Observational report demonstrates severe noncardiogenic pulmonary edema relieved by oxygen therapy in gas-poisoned casualties, highlighting distinct clinical dissociation between cyanosis and air...

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C. F. HOOVER (1918) studied this question.

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Observational report demonstrates severe noncardiogenic pulmonary edema relieved by oxygen therapy in gas-poisoned casualties, highlighting distinct clinical dissociation between cyanosis and air...

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