This article discusses the clinical entity of the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), its
manifestations, and its natural history. The problems of defining the syndrome and its …

Adult respiratory distress syndrome: A systematic overview o... : Critical Care Medicine Adult
respiratory distress syndrome: A systematic overview of incidence and risk factors : Critical …

Abstract Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a common diagnosis in today's
intensive care units, representing a final common pathway of lung response to a variety of …

Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) defines a clinical, physiological,
roentgenographic syndrome characterized by severe respiratory failure. ARDS is widely …

Clinical diagnostic criteria of the adult respiratory distre... : Critical Care Medicine Clinical
diagnostic criteria of the adult respiratory distress syndrome in the intensive care unit : Critical …

The adult respiratory distress syndrome is a reaction of the lung to a variety of severe direct
or indirect pulmonary insults. It is characterized by acute respiratory distress, severe …

More than twenty years ago, Ashbaugh and coworkers,(1), in a now classic article,
described. 12 patients whose striking but uniform clinical, physiologic, roentgenographic …

The adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a form of acute lung injury characterized
by arterial hypoxemia, reduced thoracic compliance, normal pulmonary capillary wedge …

The term adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is useful clinically because it describes
a syndrome with common clinical and pathophysiological features and for which certain …

BACKGROUND--Studies suggest that the mortality in adults with acute respiratory distress
(ARDS) has not changed over the past two decades, despite the introduction of new …