Clinicians throughout the world continue to be challenged with the task of caring for patients
with acute lung injury. Although recognised as early as the mid-1940s as 'traumatic wet …

As reported in Chapter 2, despite a number of important advances in mechanical ventilatory
support, intensive care unit technology, and critical care training, the mortality due to …

Acute lung injury (ALI) and its most severe manifestation of Acute Respiratory Distress
Syndrome (ARDS) is a clinical syndrome of inflammation of the lung triggered by both direct …

Inflammatory response leading to organ dysfunction and failure continues to be the major
problem after injury in many clinical conditions such as sepsis, severe burns, acute …

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a process of non-hydrostatic pulmonary
edema and hypoxemia with a variety of etiologies, consists of diffuse, acute parenchymal …

The clinical presentation of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) results from acute
inflammation and tissue damage affecting the gas exchange apparatus of the lung. Basic …

Inflammatory processes during acute respiratory distress syn... : Current Opinion in Critical
Care Inflammatory processes during acute respiratory distress syndrome: a complex system …

6. Esper AM, Martin GS: Evolution of treatments for patients with acute lung injury. Expert
Opin Investig Drugs 2005; 14: 633–645 7. Matute-Bello G, Liles WC, Radella F 2nd, et al …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is defined as an acute-onset, progressive,
hypoxic condition with radiographic bilateral lung infiltration, which develops after several …

Acute lung injury (ALI) affects over 10% of patients hospitalised in critical care, with acute
respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) being the most severe form of ALI and having a …