Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was first described in 1967 by Ashbaugh and colleagues and was initially associated with trauma, sepsis, or aspirations. In 1994, the American-European Consensus Conference on ARDS created the widely used definition of ARDS as follows: (1) acute onset of severe hypoxemia with a Pao2 to Fio2 ratio of 200mmHg or less, (2) bilateral infiltrates on chest x-ray, and (3) no evidence of left atrial hypertension or a pulmonary wedge pressure less than 18 mmHg. A lesssevere form of ARDS known as ALI (acute lung injury) was also defined at this conference and was distinguished from ARDS by a Pao2 to Fio2 ratio of less than 300mmHg.
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- Nitric Oxide
- Acute Lung Injury
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Severe Hypoxemia
- Lung Protective Ventilation
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Chan, E.Y. (2008). Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. In: Myers, J.A., Millikan, K.W., Saclarides, T.J. (eds) Common Surgical Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75246-4_79
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