Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are a continuum of
lung changes arising from a wide variety of lung injuries, frequently resulting in significant …

Background The joint committee of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care
Medicine/Japanese Respiratory Society/Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine on …

Fluid therapy, which is provided to restore and maintain tissue perfusion, is part of routine
management for almost all critically ill patients. However, because either too much or too …

Imaging plays a key role in the diagnosis and follow-up of acute respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS). Chest radiography, bedside lung ultrasonography and computed …

Background Rapid and accurate diagnosis and management can be lifesaving for patients
with acute dyspnea. However, making a differential diagnosis and selecting early treatment …

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

Heart failure is a common presentation to the emergency department (ED), which can be
confused with other clinical conditions. This review provides an evidence-based summary of …

Natriuretic peptides (NPs) have been found to be useful markers in differentiating acute
dyspneic patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) and emerged as potent …

Background Discriminating acute lung injury (ALI) or acute respiratory distress syndrome
(ARDS) from cardiogenic pulmonary edema (CPE) is often challenging. This systematic …

BACKGROUND: The diagnostic workup of transfusion‐related acute lung injury (TRALI)
requires an exclusion of transfusion‐associated circulatory overload (TACO). Brain …