Pathway of the tracheal tube and complications of nasal intubation.

is, to the best of our knowledge, not known. If increased hydrostatic pressure is important, then the use of furosemide can be justified. Therapy directly aimed at neutralizing PGE2 is currently experimental. 5 Although estimation of blood loss during major bleeding may be difficult, we do not think that our patient developed pulmonary oedema due to overtransfusion as we are confident that we did not infuse a greater volume of i.v. fluid than the amount of blood lost, and she had a normal cardiac function. We are not aware of any report suggesting that pulmonary oedema might be directly caused by HES solutions.