The acute respiratory distress syndrome is a common, devastating clinical syndrome of
acute lung injury that affects both medical and surgical patients. Since the last review of this …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome presents as hypoxia and bilateral pulmonary infiltrates
on chest imaging in the absence of heart failure sufficient to account for this clinical state …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an acute respiratory illness characterised by
bilateral chest radiographical opacities with severe hypoxaemia due to non-cardiogenic …

Background Differential diagnosis between acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema (APE) and
acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) may often be difficult. We …

Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine has long been the definitive and
comprehensive pulmonary disease reference. Robert J. Mason, MD now presents the fifth …

A 62-year-old man presents with a three-day history of progressive dyspnea, nonproductive
cough, and low-grade fever. His blood pressure is 100/60 mm Hg, his heart rate 110 beats …

Interest in the pathogenetic mechanisms of acute lung injury has focusd in recent years on
the cellular and biochemical mediators of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) …

Background A lung-protective ventilatory strategy with low tidal volume (VT) has been
proposed for use in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Alveolar derecruitment …

This review describes the clinical, etiologic, and physiologic basis of the acute respiratory
distress syndrome and summarizes how its molecular pathogenesis leads to respiratory …

In this review we evaluate specific therapeutic strategies for the acute respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS) 1, 2 and make recommendations on their use. We begin with a brief …