BACKGROUND: How indices specific to respiratory compromise contribute to
prognostication in patients with ARDS is not well characterized in general clinical …

Rationale: Quantifying acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS) severity is essential for
prognostic enrichment to stratify patients for invasive or higher-risk treatments; however, the …

Methods Permission was given to retrospectively analyze the ARDS Network database with
respect to VR. These previously collected databases formed the foundation of three ARDS …

In a recent paper published in Critical Care Medicine, Villar et al.(1) proposed a scoring
system that could be easily calculated at the bedside to predict mortality in patients with …

BACKGROUND: We evaluated the outcome of subjects with ARDS in relation to etiology
and severity in a retrospective cohort study of the ARDS Network randomized controlled …

Objective: Although the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was identified as long
as 30 years ago, potential therapeutic objectives have been defined from small series rather …

BACKGROUND: Predicting mortality has become a necessary step for selecting patients for
clinical trials and defining outcomes. We examined whether stratification by tertiles of …

BACKGROUND: The oxygenation ratio (ie, P aO 2/F IO 2) remains the most commonly used
index for assessing oxygenation and disease severity in patients with acute ARDS …

Background Currently there is no ARDS definition or classification system that allows
optimal prediction of mortality in ARDS patients. This study aimed to examine the predictive …

Rationale: Pulmonary dead space fraction (Vd/Vt) is an independent predictor of mortality in
acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Yet, it is seldom used in practice. The …