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To the Editor: A 51-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital in severe respiratory distress due to the acute onset of pulmonary edema and bronchospasm. She was comatose and required emergency intubation. Arterial-blood gas measurement before intubation showed the following: pH, 6.89; partial pressure of carbon dioxide, 88.8 mm Hg; partial pressure of oxygen, 60.2 mm Hg; and oxygen saturation, 69.5 percent.

The patient responded well to conventional treatment. Eventually, she recounted her harrowing trip to the hospital. Her husband had been driving the car. She said that she would have lost consciousness en route had she not held her . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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