Rationale: Accurate, early identification of patients at risk for developing acute lung injury
(ALI) provides the opportunity to test and implement secondary prevention strategies …

Early recognition of patients at high risk of acute lung injury (ALI) is critical for successful
enrolment of patients in prevention strategies for this devastating syndrome. We aimed to …

Background Despite being a focus of intensive investigation, acute lung injury (ALI) remains
a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, the current consensus definition impedes …

Objective Early detection of acute lung injury (ALI) is essential for timely implementation of
evidence-based therapies and enrollment into clinical trials. We aimed to determine the …

Objective: Mortality associated with acute lung injury remains high. Early identification of
acute lung injury prior to onset of respiratory failure may provide a therapeutic window to …

Objectives To re-examine the epidemiology of acute lung injury (ALI) in European intensive
care units (ICUs). Design and setting A 2-month inception cohort study in 78 ICUs of 10 …

Background: The diagnosis of acute lung injury (ALI) is based on a consensus clinical
definition. Despite the simplicity of this definition, ALI remains underdiagnosed and …

The epidemiology of ALI and ARDS has some issues to improve, such as the accuracy of the
clinical criteria of ALI/ARDS. Future research must to include study of genetic polymorphisms …

Objectives: Evaluation of prevalence and outcomes of acute lung injury in a large cohort of
critically ill patients in Brazil and comparison of predictive receiver operating characteristic …

An invited commentary in the Lancet in 1997 noted,“despite two decades of intense effort,
there is still no means of predicting reliably whether an individual patient will develop the …