Importance Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening form of
respiratory failure that affects approximately 200 000 patients each year in the United States, …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common and life-threatening cause of
respiratory failure. Despite decades of research, there are no effective pharmacologic therapies …

… distress syndrome, and who did not respond to conventional treatment, underwent open lung
biopsy early … Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was diagnosed and aggressive treatment with …

… respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating clinical syndrome whose diagnosis
… The aim of this review was to discuss the current challenge for the diagnosis and treatment …

… Acute respiratory distress syndrome often has to be … Treatment of acute respiratory distress
syndrome is supportive … , nutritional support, and treatment of the underlying injury. Low tidal …

… the fifth version of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental … based diagnostic proposal,
bodily distress syndrome, which … utility criteria recommended for diagnostic categorisation. …

… distress syndrome (ARDS) … diagnostic workup of the syndrome will be presented with
particular attention to microbiological investigations which represent a milestone in the diagnostic …

… consensus conference established specific diagnostic criteria for the syndrome 2 ; these …
can be added to the diagnosis of ARDS (Box 1). The diagnosis of ARDS depends on clinical …

… Syndrome To the Editor In the review article on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) …
, which may not be ideal for identifying diagnostic studies, they may have missed some …

… information on the treatment of ARDS, we hypothesized that the diagnostic and therapeutic
… , we conducted a direct mail survey of the diagnostic and therapeutic practices of members of …