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Right Ventricular Performance in the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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Cardiopulmonary Interactions in Acute Respiratory Failure

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((UICM,volume 2))

Abstract

The Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a catastrophic form of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure which usually follows a variety of direct and indirect insults to the lung’s gas-exchanging membrane (Table 1). The major pulmonary manifestations of ARDS include:

  • permeability pulmonary edema (PPE);

  • decreased pulmonary compliance; and,

  • pulmonary hypertension (PH).

ARDS is also frequently associated with evidence which defines a concurrent injury to the peripheral microcirculation insofar that the efficiency of peripheral oxygen extraction may be reduced in the presence of a demonstrable oxygen need [1, 2].

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  1. L. D. Oliphant
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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean Louis Vincent (Assistant-Director) (Assistant-Director)

  2. Department of Surgical Intensive Care, University Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland

    Peter M. Suter (Director) (Director)

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Oliphant, L.D., Sibbald, W.J. (1987). Right Ventricular Performance in the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome. In: Vincent, J.L., Suter, P.M. (eds) Cardiopulmonary Interactions in Acute Respiratory Failure. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83010-5_3

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