17th August 2020

A 65-year-old woman on the ward reports increasing breathlessness and difficulty breathing

A 65-year-old woman on the ward reports increasing breathlessness and difficulty breathing. On auscultation of her chest, you hear coarse crackles up to the mid-zones. She has a history of heart failure, which is usually well controlled. ECG is unremarkable, and the patient says she is not in any pain. You have started her on oxygen by nasal cannula, what medication may provide rapid symptomatic relief for the fluid overload?

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