ABSTRACT
Objective:To observe the emergency treatment effect of levosimendan combined noninvasive mechanical ventilation on acute heart failure during emergency treatment period .Methods :According to random number table , 120 cases with acute heart failure were randomly and equally divided into routine treatment group and levosimendan group (levosimendan + noninvasive mechanical ventilation ) .Improvements of arterial blood gas [partial pressure of carbon dioxide and oxygen (PaCO2 ,PaO2 ) ,pH etc .] after 72h ,change of N terminal pro brain natriuretic pep-tide (NTpro-BNP ) level 4d after hospitalization and mortality rate were observed and compared between two groups .Results:After treatment ,PaO2 ,mean arterial pressure and NTpro-BNP level of the two groups significant-ly improved compared with before treatment ;compared with routine treatment group ,there was significant rise in PaO2 [ (78.2 ± 9.4) mmHg vs .(86.2 ± 10.5) mmHg] and significant reductions in mean arterial pressure [ (86.3 ± 8.2) mmHg vs .(82.2 ± 9.0) mmHg] and NTpro-BNP level [ (4340.5 ± 540.7) pg/ml vs .(4012.1 ± 426.3) pg/ml] in levosimendan group , P<0.01 all;total effective rate of levosimendan group was significantly higher than that of routine treatment group (86.7% vs .76.6% , P=0.047);after three-month follow-up ,mortality rate of le-vosimendan group was significantly lower than that of routine treatment group (11.7% vs .20.0% , P= 0.026 ) . Conclusion:Emergency treatment effect of levosimendan combined noninvasive mechanical ventilation on acute heart failure is significant ,which is worthy of further research and extension .